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At the end it will be battle between Windows Mobile and mobile Linux - Nokia getting ready to dump Symbian July 25, 2005 [General] | By Edward J. R. Nokia did it once and now Nokia is preparing to do it again. In past Nokia Communicator phones were based on GEOS operating system. Then, without releasing commercial phones with it, Nokia ported Palm OS and tested it internally. Then Nokia dumped GEOS and switched to Symbian - based on EPOC from Psion. Now Nokia is already testing internally Series 60 and other platforms on Linux... Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, lately revealed that Apple was (secretly!) compiling Mac OS X operating system and all applications for Intel processor for several years in parallel with doing it for PowerPC processor. Now, when Steve Jobs realized that Intel has superior processors and PowerPC processors cannot catch up to Intel, he decided to dump PowerPC and go for Intel. Similarly Nokia has been already compiling Series 60 and other software components for mobile phones also for mobile Linux ! Now it is only question of time when Nokia will announce (gradually) dumping of Symbian - at first by releasing several models in parallel but later it will end in total Here is further information about Nokia dumping Symbian (from Arc Chart Ltd): This look at Symbian’s licensees highlights two important points. Not only is Nokia the largest conduit for the Symbian OS into the market, it also appears to be one of the few vendors capable of releasing Symbian products with any sort of regularity. We believe that difficulties in porting the Symbian OS to new hardware platforms is one reason some licensees have experienced huge delays in bringing Symbian phones to market and why they have not quickly followed through with further models. To read more click here. Credit: Alex Abraham (nedge2k) from MSMobileNews.com. Conclusions: while competing with Symbian - the current market leader in smartphones - Microsoft should concentrate on trying to provide all those features that Linux provides - also in Windows Mobile. After all also PalmSource lately decided to move completely to mobile Linux and dump PalmOS in a role of "core operating system" and replace it with mobile Linux, keeping PalmOS just as a layer of applications (mostly GUI) working on top of mobile Linux... so in long term it will be battle between Windows Mobile and mobile Linux, or, if Apple will decide to port their Mac OS X (based on BSD Unix) software to mobile phones, a battle between Windows Mobile and mobile Unix (Linux is a kind of Unix)...  Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 4 Comments ]
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