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By: As Handset Makers Go Android, Top Symbian Exec Goes Away: Tech News «

As Handset Makers Go Android, Top Symbian Exec Goes Away: Tech News « — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 22:09:08 +0000

[...] The Symbian Foundation today announced in an email that Lee Williams has stepped down from his executive director role “for personal reasons” and will be replaced immediately by Tim Holbrow, the foundation’s CFO. Williams may have his own reasons for leaving, but there are a number of other business reasons that could explain such an action. But before we get into those, it might be worth reviewing this brief GigaOM video interview with Williams from a year or so ago. [...]

By: trancehell

trancehell — Sat, 15 May 2010 18:44:52 +0000

Symbian-directors, be aware: Symbian will die if you won't flow with the market ! If the market needs a feature, let them develop and implement it... there are umpteen absolutely brilliant hardware and software technologies on the market that could not make it because of the greediness of their owners, and I can fill an A4 page with them. Don't suicide Symbian !

By: Google’s Mobile Chief Andy Rubin on the Google Phone & the Androidification of Everything – GigaOM

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:02:52 +0000

[...] The world has changed, Rubin argued. Up until now, the software inside the phone and the web were two different entities living in two different worlds. What Android represents is the ethos of the web brought to the cell phone world. “As a company we iterate a lot and now you have a cell-phone platform that you can quickly iterate upon,” said Rubin. “When were you able to do that on Symbian?” Ouch! (Related: Symbian Executive Rips Into Google’s Android.) [...]

By: Android team updates ‘Donut’ and ‘Eclair’ SDKs

Android team updates ‘Donut’ and ‘Eclair’ SDKs — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:22:33 +0000

[...] Android devices will be able to upgrade to 2.0, and today, we begin to see a bit more of that dreaded Android fragmentation as both versions got updates to their SDK [...]

By: Adsnews

Adsnews — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:49:21 +0000

The Nokia frustrated me at every turn. A trip to the Ovi store resulted in a certificate error followed by a signup screen I could not get around. Kept getting popups asking which APN I wanted to use. Tried to update the firmware, but could not because some connections were open (which ones? how do I fix this?) and evidently Symbian doesn’t know how to close connections or something. The touch screen was somewhere between sad and comic and the overall experience was shockingly bad, particularly when considered in the light of the same company and same OS is on the remarkably cool E71.

By: Why is Google Android beating Symbian? |

Why is Google Android beating Symbian? | — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:21:17 +0000

[...] has been dismissive of Google Android, as well as smaller upstarts like the LiMo Foundation, arguing that the latter is [...]

By: Android vs Symbian « Gajah Item

Android vs Symbian « Gajah Item — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:18:36 +0000

[...] has been dismissive of Google Android, as well as smaller upstarts like the LiMo Foundation, arguing that the latter is [...]

By: Instant (Bad) Karma | RSands Consulting

Instant (Bad) Karma | RSands Consulting — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:57:09 +0000

[...] but it is what Lee Williams, Symbian’s executive director chose to do on October 23, in this interview with Om Malik of GigaOM. You know you’re in rough water when your interviewer interjects [...]

By: Hardeep Singh

Hardeep Singh — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 03:48:53 +0000

“handset makers never really had [the customers]. Phone carriers do”.

Here in India, networks are dumb pipes that deliver voice and data calls. People buy whatever cellphone they like, slip in their sim card and networks stay happy with whatever little customers throw at them. Actually, they keep coming up with newer cheaper plans so they could replace the sim card that resides inside your cellphone with their own, you can get a Lifetime prepaid connection from Vodafone or Airtel for Rs. 100 easily.

The situation is the extreme opposite of what you have in America, handset makers have customers and networks just provide a service.

By: Hardeep Singh

Hardeep Singh — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 03:42:31 +0000

Web standards don’t matter, usability does. (ask Micrsoft)

In today’s world flash is more important.