Mobiles reviews - open source

Nokia and Google rebuff claims of Symbian, Android merger

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:51:42 +0000

The two largest open-source mobile platform initiatives are swirling up rumors that they’ll be joining forces to combine the Symbian and Android platforms spearheaded by Nokia and Google, respectively. Allegedly informed analysts at J. Gold Associates are claiming that a merger between Nokia and Google could kick off in three to six months, citing both [...]

LiMo Foundation and LiPS Forum combine to battle open-source competitors

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:06:28 +0000

As smaller competitors in an growing open-source mobile OS market, LiMo Foundation and LiPS (Linux Phone Standards) Forum members are in for a serious battle for open-source marketshare. With Nokia buying out Symbian to essentially seed the open-source Symbian mobile platform, and the OHA backing Google's Android platform, there isn't much hope for small-game. Oh, [...]

Mobile handset manufacturers bringing Symbian together for new open-source mobile platform - Symbian OS, S60, UIQ united

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:06:35 +0000

With news that Google's Android-push will take just a bit longer than we would prefer, it's fitting that Nokia has just announced that it will be working to bring together the fragmented Symbian environment under a single, open-source umbrella. Nokia has been working closely with Symbian for years with S60 development, and it seems that the [...]

Employees quitting left and right from Nokia's Maemo

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:50:19 +0000

There's nothing we like more than an open-source platform. A community of like-minded individuals working to make a platform work for them, the way they want, is just cool. So, what's up with the recent spate of employee desertions? We're hearing that, over the past few weeks, Nokia's Maemo group has seen four employees involved with [...]