April 1st, 2011 by lhaas                              

Windows Phone 7 Predicted To Beat Apple iPhone — InformationWeek

The IDC’s Mobile Devices Technology and Trends team predicts that Android will end up on top in 2011, but will be overtaken by Microsoft’s WP7 platform by 2015. The author of this article (below) begs to differ: “In the close to six months that WP7 has been available, it has failed to set [...]

April 1st, 2011 | Tags: Android, Blackberry, iPhone, mobile devices, smart phones, Symbian, Windows Mobile | Category: Mobile News | Leave a comment
December 8th, 2010 by lhaas                              

Nokia Reasserts Control Over Symbian OS - Slashdot

Nokia has announced that it will take over development of its operating system while the Symbian Foundation shifts its focus to licensing. The Symbian website will shut down December 17th. As posted on  Slashdot:

“Nokia is asserting its control over the Symbian OS that runs many of its smartphones, taking the tasks of [...]

December 8th, 2010 | Tags: nokia, smart phones, smartphones, Symbian | Category: Mobile News | Leave a comment
October 28th, 2009 by ahoog                              

Symbian Releases Microkernel As Open Source, Finally

This is an important development.  Once Google entered the scene and open sourced Android, it significantly altered the marketplace.  For folks in mobile forensics research, this is great news but represents yet another platform that much be analyzed and kept up to date on.

I also believe Nokia has quite a bit more [...]

October 28th, 2009 | Tags: Symbian | Category: Mobile News | Leave a comment