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Symbian attacks
October 12, 2005 [General] | By Edward J. R.

We usually don't publish information about Symbian mobiles, but since Symbian Ltd was established (mainly by Nokia and Sony Ericsson) to prevent Microsoft from succeeding in cell phone industry, this story is not irrelevant.

Apart from that once a year in London (place where Symbian is headquarted), UK, so called "TheSmartphoneShow" conference organized by Symbian Ltd takes place and 2 major Symbian owners - Nokia and Sony Ericsson have just announced at this conference some new phones, that we present here.

While these phones look good and have some nice features, they lack several features that latest generations of Windows Mobile phones have: fast Wi-Fi (802.11g also and not just 802.11b), mini-USB connectors, 640x480 pixels displays, .NET framework and compatibility with push-email feature of MS Exchange (Service Pack 2).

Here are the new models that also show that apart from Nokia (that sells 90% of all Symbian phones) and Sony Ericsson no other manufacturers have chances to sell bigger numbers of Symbian phones (and thus it makes no sense to license Symbian):
  • Nokia E60 (Wi-Fi, 3G/UMTS, EDGE, tri-band GSM):



  • Nokia E61 (Wi-Fi, 3G/UMTS, quad-band GSM, no touch screen):



  • Nokia E70 (Wi-Fi, 3G/UMTS, tri-band GSM):



  • Sony Ericsson P990 (Wi-Fi, 3G/UMTS, tri-band GSM, touch screen):

Conclusion: while the new Symbian phones superficially look nice, in reality Symbian is very fragmented and Series 60 and UIQ platforms of Symbian are not compatible with each other, and in fact buying Windows Mobile phones (where there is no such huge fragmentation as in Symbian) makes much more sense.


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