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Motorola bought Sendo

 
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 7:27 pm    Post subject: Motorola bought Sendo Reply with quote
Motorola previously never was using Symbian Series 60 platform and Sendo based its future smartphone plans on this platform. It will be interesting to observe whether Motorola will dump Sendo's Symbian phones based...

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PostPosted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 8:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
It seems that most of the press is, rightly or wrongly, blaming this on Microsoft.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 9:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
This isn't good for MS, it looks like Motorola will move further away from MS.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/06/30/motorola_sendo_takeover/

Sendo were not a insignificant company, they had 90 patents that Motorola have taken over.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 4:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Who knows, Motorola have positioned themselves like IBM, trying to have their fingers in all the pies.

They do know that being in the Symbian camp and having a large number of useful patents gives them more control than they would have by producing Windows phones. It's hard to get Microsoft to do what you want, they cling onto their source code quite tightly.
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