why would you call bs on that? symbiam is a dying OS, its only supported by two major brands which are sony and nokia, but nevertheless most of there apps are incompatible with each other. Seem more reasonable to go with windows mobile. At least they can fill a gap from people going to another company because they lack WM OS.
And also ... BlackBerryOs which is a dying os supported by one brand blacberry OSX is a dying os supported by one company Apple PalmOs (Garnet and the PalmLinuxFrankenMonster) is a dying OS supported by one company Palm
Last I checked Symbian WAS the leadign smartphone OS. Sony is just keeping its options open like Palm did with Windows Mobile.
Totalfixation: Nokia is strong behind Symbian, Samsung and LG are starting to ship Symbian models (there are quite a few new Symbian devices from Samsung recently, more in one wave than they ever made yet) and Motorola recently rejoined the Symbian group...so, basically, every single one of the biggest five handset manufacturers have Symbian handsets in their line-up, but only three of them have WM handsets (and in most cases, less of them) - go figure...
Symbian might be a non-starter in the US, but in Europe and Asia it's definitely the most prevalent OS on handsets, by a HUGE margin...
I believe many mobile phone companies are utilizing Symbian more then ever, but be as it may, Microsoft has been picking up a lot steam. One example is HTC having almost all of there handset supporting windows mobile base. With other iterations of Windows Vista OS on their portable devices. It's a sign that the consumers want Windows Mobile, at least in the US. 2 years ago the name HTC would have been see as something of a after market product or cheap knock off a cell phone. Seeing that Sony has awarded HTC the license on providing OEM headset units with Windows mobile is more evident. Also majority if not all cell phone companies license exchange/Intellisync/activesync from Microsoft. Microsoft knows how to play the game and they are smart enough to convince that Windows mobile is the right choice. Windows Mobile just has a better name recognition to the main stream consumer. Its just a matter of time before all the companies will support at least one version of Windows mobile base handset. The only reason why i see Symbian doing good is because they are the only alternative outside of the US, and Microsoft hasn't been focusing there attention beyond the scope of the US market. Eventually that will change.
Ps: i hope no one brings up palm OS. we all know where that is going.
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I'm calling B.S. on this one...
why would you call bs on that? symbiam is a dying OS, its only supported by two major brands which are sony and nokia, but nevertheless most of there apps are incompatible with each other. Seem more reasonable to go with windows mobile. At least they can fill a gap from people going to another company because they lack WM OS.
And also ...
BlackBerryOs which is a dying os supported by one brand blacberry
OSX is a dying os supported by one company Apple
PalmOs (Garnet and the PalmLinuxFrankenMonster) is a dying OS supported by one company Palm
Last I checked Symbian WAS the leadign smartphone OS. Sony is just keeping its options open like Palm did with Windows Mobile.
Totalfixation: Nokia is strong behind Symbian, Samsung and LG are starting to ship Symbian models (there are quite a few new Symbian devices from Samsung recently, more in one wave than they ever made yet) and Motorola recently rejoined the Symbian group...so, basically, every single one of the biggest five handset manufacturers have Symbian handsets in their line-up, but only three of them have WM handsets (and in most cases, less of them) - go figure...
Symbian might be a non-starter in the US, but in Europe and Asia it's definitely the most prevalent OS on handsets, by a HUGE margin...
I believe many mobile phone companies are utilizing Symbian more then ever, but be as it may, Microsoft has been picking up a lot steam. One example is HTC having almost all of there handset supporting windows mobile base. With other iterations of Windows Vista OS on their portable devices. It's a sign that the consumers want Windows Mobile, at least in the US. 2 years ago the name HTC would have been see as something of a after market product or cheap knock off a cell phone. Seeing that Sony has awarded HTC the license on providing OEM headset units with Windows mobile is more evident. Also majority if not all cell phone companies license exchange/Intellisync/activesync from Microsoft. Microsoft knows how to play the game and they are smart enough to convince that Windows mobile is the right choice. Windows Mobile just has a better name recognition to the main stream consumer. Its just a matter of time before all the companies will support at least one version of Windows mobile base handset. The only reason why i see Symbian doing good is because they are the only alternative outside of the US, and Microsoft hasn't been focusing there attention beyond the scope of the US market. Eventually that will change.
Ps: i hope no one brings up palm OS. we all know where that is going.