John Locke wrote:
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:48:57 +0000, Mark Kent <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
Nokia has no plans to use Windows Mobile -CEO
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| Kallasvuo repeated Nokia would unveil a version of its own operating system,
| Symbian S60 touch-screen platform, in the second half of 2008.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUKL119269620080211?rpc=44
That's a relief. Let Windows Mobile contine to lose $billions.
To a point, I'd rather Nokia had gone to LiMo or Android or OpenMoko.
..yes, I was hoping they'd move towards some kind of common
Linux distribution for their mobile devices. But at least its not
Microsoft !
http://www.ovum.com/news/euronews.asp?id=6591
Symbian: The support of Qt by S60 will be the first environment that will allow developers to write full applications (including UI) without using the native Symbian-based application framework. With this in place Nokia has the option to migrate its S60 application to Qt and benefit from increased portability and less dependency on Symbian OS. This increases the likelihood that in the long term Symbian will have to compete against Linux-based platforms within its existing customer base.
S60: S60 is Nokia's flagship mobile software platform, based on Symbian OS, it is the basis of its high tier mobile phones (e.g. N-series) as well as an increasing number of it mid-tier offerings. Nokia has supported multi-runtime strategy for S60 for sometime. Developers can currently write applications in Flash, Java and C (using Open C). Adding the Qt framework to S60 will be consistent with that strategy and like Open C, supporting Qt allows developers who have open source applications targeted at Linux to run on S60-based devices. This will increase the number of applications and services which can run on the devices.
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