Almost a decade ago, things were looking good for Symbian OS. There was talk that we might see Symbian-powered netbooks and tablets go on sale. Then, just a few short years later, things took a dramatic turn. Nokia pulled the plug on Symbian development in 2013 and application developers gradually started abandoning the platform. Not […]
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WhatsApp pulls the plug on BlackBerry, Symbian, Android 2.2 apps
Facebook-owned chat app WhatsApp is used by as many as a billion people. But a small number of those people might have to look for other solutions later this year, because WhatsApp has announced it’s ending support for a few platforms. The news probably says more about the tiny amount of market share held by those […]
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Nokia finally pulls the plug on Symbian, goes all-in with Windows Phone
More than two years after Finnish phone maker Nokia made the move from Symbian OS to Windows Phone, the company is getting ready to pull completely out of the Symbian business. Nokia hasn’t released a new Symbian phone since 2012, and now the Financial Times reports that the company plans to stop shipping Symbian devices […]
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Fujitsu LOOX F-07C smartphone could run Windows 7
Sure, Windows Phone 7 is designed to run on handheld devices, but have you ever wished you could avoid talking to someone by claiming your phone had a BSOD crash? Well Fujitsu may be fixing to make your dreams come true. The folks at Pocketables found a scanned spec sheet on a Chinese web site […]
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Nokia may be working on dual screen 3D phone, Windows 8 tablet
A few leaks and rumors about Nokia’s future plans are making the rounds this morning. First up is a Nokia Communicator device that looks a bit like a Nintendo 3DS thanks to its two screens and 3D display technology. This device looks like something Nokia is actually considering, having shown up in a patent application […]
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Symbian OS tablets, netbooks could be coming soon
Yesterday the folks behind the Symbian smartphone operating system announced that the platform had gone open source. Now it looks like Symbian may be planning to move beyond the smartphone and port the OS to tablet and netbook-style devices. We’ve already seen that Symbian can be ported to run on devices with an Intel Atom […]
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What could a Symbian netbook look like?
Symbian is an operating system that’s designed for mobile phones. But as we’ve recently seen, you can run the operating system on an x86 processor like the Intel Atom chip or on ARM based processors. When asked about netbooks at a recent event, Symbian Foundation executive director Lee Williams responded that the company isn’t actively […]
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Averatec building a netbook with “surprise OS” (Google Android)
The folks at Averatec are working on a new netbook that could be out in August or September. CNet interviewed the company’s CEO and discovered that the mini-laptop will sport a “surprise” operating system that will combine “cell phone and PC technology.” Right now, the most likely candidate is Google Android, an operating system that […]
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Symbian OS ported to run on Intel Atom processors
Google Android isn’t the only mobile phone operating system capable of running on netbooks anymore. The folks behind the Symbian operating system (which incidentally, started out as the EPOC operating system that powered early Psion handheld computers a decade ago), recently ported Symbian to work with the Intel Atom processor. The port is pretty rough […]