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Symbian Makes its Mobile Platform Open Source

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The Symbian Foundation has just announced that the source code of their widely used mobile platform is now completely open source.  This makes practically anybody eligible to take, use and modify the code for any purpose, be it for mobile or for other purposes.

For Symbian Foundation, making the mobile phone OS open source  would  provide the Symbian ecosystem with greater potential for innovation, faster time-to-market and the opportunity to develop on the platform for free. This might also attract mobile phone manufacturers to consider using Symbian in their future mobile phone releases.

And as part of  the decision to make their mobile platform open source, Symbian Foundation has committed to share platform roadmap and planned features up to 2011.

So what does this mean for us mobile phone users? Well, if you love mobile phone apps developed on Symbian OS, but does not want to use a Nokia smartphone, soon perhaps this will now be available on other mobile phones.  But that is if mobile phone developers and manufacturers will pick it up and make it available on their mobile devices.

The complete  source code of the Symbian platform is now available for download at the Symbian developer web site. If you’re an applications developer, you can also download the Symbian Developer Kit and also the Product Development Kit. These kits are supported by the latest Symbian^3 platform.

Originally posted on February 4, 2010 @ 4:14 pm

New Nano-SIMs to Enter The Market by Next Year

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SIM cards are an integral part of mobile phones and even though it is one of those use it and forget it pieces of technology it is also evolving as new technologies emerge to change it. The SIM is now poised for another evolution as a new one is going to be introduced very soon.

The new SIM, called the nano-sim, will be introduced by Gieseck  & Devrient (G&D), the same company that released the first commercial SIM card two decads ago. The nano-SIM is slated to be displayed to the public at a trade show that will be held in Paris from November 15 to 17. [Read more…]

Originally posted on November 14, 2011 @ 10:55 am

The Benefits of a Work Phone Inside Your Phone

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The company VMware, a leader in the virtual machine segment, has introduced new technologies allowing employees to use personal mobile devices for work. At the same time, the applications on these phones that are related to work will be controlled by means of a number of novel security settings. One example of one such state of the art device is Horizon Mobile, which the company introduced last week. This device can operate a virtual machine of a work Smartphone that is inside your personal phone. Other devices, thanks to which you can benefit from a work phone inside your personal one, include applications that can deliver a virtual desktop image to your desktop computer at work and applications that can deliver other work-related graphics and designs to your Smartphone or tablet. [Read more…]

Originally posted on September 8, 2011 @ 7:16 am