Monday, 20. April 2009, 07:10:57
netbook, symbian
Symbian has ported its OS to Atom, the processor of choice in many of the mini-laptops that are proliferating on the market today, such as the Asus EeePC line. Symbian being an operating system written for small embedded systems, this is a perfect match.
Back in the days when Symbian OS still was EPOC, and was shipped with Psion’s hand-held devices, there was the
Psion 7. Ahead of its time, it died, but perhaps its legacy can now live on?
I am eagerly awaiting an installer so I can put Symbian OS on the nice little EeePC 901 I got
for my birthday last year.
Wednesday, 29. October 2008, 19:47:11
uiq, symbian, iphone, opera mini
...
Microsoft has been bashed several times for
anti-competitive behaviour, by trying to tout their own products over those of their competitors. Now it seems that Apple, in their trying to copy Microsoft’s success, is doing the same.
Håvard writes that
Apple is blocking Opera Mini for the Iphone from entering their Application Store, since it
competes with Safari. Apparently Apple doesn’t like competing software, just like how they
don’t like competing hardware.
Another reason not to buy an Iphone, I guess. Not that I was going to, anyway. I was considering the Xperia, but it
seems not to be compatible with the Sony Ericsson accessories I have, and I don’t feel like buying yet another set of chargers, docking stations and headsets. So I am stuck with my
trusty ol’ P990i, which
does run the latest Opera Mini, even if
the latest Opera Mobile beta doesn’t work on it.
Tuesday, 24. June 2008, 12:32:44
uiq, sony ericsson, symbian
Ny Teknik writes that Sony Ericcson is to let 200 people go from their Uiq development facility in Ronneby, Sweden, after
Nokia has announced that it is taking over Symbian and open sourcing it. This is interesting for
Opera since it has been on Symbian for a long time, and the Uiq version has been integrated and sold with the handsets, unlike the Nokia Symbian Series 60 version which has mostly
been a separate download and sold as shareware.
I used to
like Uiq a lot back in the P800 days. I first saw a demo of it at Symbian in London back in 2000, and decided that it was exactly what I wanted, and the P800 did not disappoint. I now have a Sony Ericsson P990, but unfortunately the UI has been dumbed and slowed down significantly, and is nowhere near as nice as it was on the P800. The P990 wins on features, though.
I am considering a
Sony Ericsson Xperia as my next mobile. It looks very sleek, I got to see a demo copy of it at the Elektrofil show in Oslo last weekend, but unfortunately it runs Windows CE. But if Uiq is cutting down on their staff, maybe that means that there will be no Uiq version as good as it was in the old P800, so this is the way to go forward?
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