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Nokia abandoning S60 for Maemo on future N-Series devices? -- Engadget Mobile -- November 2009
This is only rumours. Symbian (S60) is Nokia's only smartphone platform, and Maemo would have a big fight to displace it.
Googles (locked down) response to the Cyanogen C&D | Android-DLs
This shows a fundamental problem with proprietary software. Even if your neighbours get it from the developer free-of-charge, you can't always help your neighbours install it alongside their preferred mods.
Do Google get a profitable 'per head' license fee from carriers or manufacturers for these apps, or are they being difficult? Either way, Google's choice not to make these open source gives them a legal right to be difficult.
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These apps are Google’s way of benefiting from Android in the same way that any other developer can, but the apps are not part of the Android platform itself. We make some of these apps available to users of any Android-powered device via Android Market, and others are pre-installed on some phones through business deals. Either way, these apps aren’t open source, and that’s why they aren’t included in the Android source code repository.
Instant (Bad) Karma | RSands Consulting |Nov 2009
Criticism of Symbian Foundation's strategy for building an open source community.
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Add Sticky NoteBut Android and iPhone are growing by leaps and bounds, largely at the expense of Symbian and Microsoft’s Windows Mobile. Actually, this fact is not lost on Symbian’s backers. Sony Ericsson is launching the Xperia X10 Android-based multimedia smartphone in early 2010. Samsung, according to Korean investment house HTC Investment Securities, is going to ditch Symbian completely, focusing on Android and their own Bada platform, announced today. Even Nokia is hedging their bets, with their new, hotly anticipated N900 tablet running the Maemo mobile Linux platform, and not Symbian OS.
- Really? Isn't the smartphone market is a rising tide that lifts most boats? Most people still don't have smartphones yet. - on 2009-11-11
Multitasking On The Nokia N900 Is Awesome | Maemo-Guru.com | Oct 2009
"Multitasking On The Nokia N900 Is Awesome"
Nokia N900 Preview First Impressions | Maemo-Guru.com | Oct 2009
short review
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Add Sticky NoteFor starters, the Nokia N900 blends IM and SMS together, so that most users will have no idea which is which. I am logged into Gtalk, Ovi Chat, and Skype on my N900, and there is no immediate notification on incoming messages whether it’s IM or SMS.
- Sounds like a _dis_advantage to me - I could see me running up a large SMS bill - but perhaps I misunderstood this feature. - on 2009-10-30
Is Google Faking the Open-Source Funk? | eweek | October 2009
Boss of the Symbian Foundation talking down his competitors.
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Add Sticky NoteIn an interview with GigaOM, Williams called Google "evil" and called for the search giant to be more transparent about Android. And it's not just Williams, but some of his crew that also are banging on Google to open up.
- Are CEOs of big open source foundations and businesses becoming more aggressive? - on 2009-10-30
19 Weird And Wonderful Ways To Hold Your iPhone In Place - iSmashPhone iPhone Blog
Didn't have this diversity in the Palm Pilot days :(
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iPhone dock made out of Lego blocks.
Mobile Maps « niq’s soapbox
Explanation of the way phones and GPS complement each other.
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you probably benefit from having a network signal to assist the GPS – phone settings will say whether it’s included in order to get a fix. S60-3 comes with a simple GPS-status app that you can use; if it takes one or two minutes even out in the open, you’re on satellites only, while with network assistance it’ll get you to within 20m maybe in 10s or less.
How I Learned To Quit The iPhone And Love Google Voice | TechCrunch 2009
VoIP will be going mainstream soon, won't it?
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If I want to start using a new phone, I can make a switch in the settings at Google Voice and calls will ring through to that instead. no carrier will ever have a stranglehold on me again.
Not only are calls being sent to both of my phones simultaneously now,- This could be done for years (by most SIP providers.) Why did it take Google to make it popular? - on 2009-08-29
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myTouch phone (which TMobile has supplied to me for free for a test period) is an excellent piece of hardware. I believe it is superior to the iPhone 3GS - it loads the camera app and video app faster, and web pages load in about 2/3 the time it takes on the iPhone/AT&T (likely more AT&T’s fault than the iPhone). The Android apps are far more interesting
Augmented Reality apps coming to iPhone with OS 3.1 release |July 2009
Am I the only one who finds this creepy?
Apple’s iPhone App Refund Policies Could Bankrupt Developers
Aaarghh
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Apple will refund the full amount to the user and says that it has the right to keep its commission. So the developer not only has to return the money for the sale, but also has to reimburse Apple for its commission. Apple charges a 30% commission on all paid apps sold through the App Store.
Rejected by Apple, iPhone developers go underground - CNN.com
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you can even get a Google Voice app, GV Mobile, through Cydia.
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Among many free apps, there are also 15 paid apps in Cydia, and the store has earned $220,000 in overall sales in just five months.
Google Latitude finally makes it over to iPhone, as a web app | July 2009
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Apple had some concern that people would confuse it for the native Maps app. We still don't get why it couldn't simply be added to Maps itself, but we're not the multibillion dollar company, here.
Apple Is Growing Rotten To The Core: Official Google Voice App Blocked From App Store | July 2009
techcrunch says that Google Voice is "gamechanging"
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Carriers have known about Google Voice for a long time, but it wasn’t until recently that it began accepting new users, and there has still been some hassle associated with actually using the service.
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GV Mobile’s developer Sean Kovacs says that the app was personally approved last April by Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing — the man who often takes the stage during Apple keynotes when Steve Jobs isn’t around. Kovacs says that Schiller called him to personally apologize for the delay in initially getting the application approved. N
InfoQ: Squeak Smalltalk and Seaside come to the iPhone - May 2009
How the handheld Macs got Squeak applications in the iTunes store - transcribed interview with John McIntosh
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We talked to John M McIntosh about what was involved in getting Squeak to run on the iPhone and what programming model is used for writing applications.
Squeak demo on iTouch 2008
25 second silent video of Squeak on the iPod Touch - including pinch zoom and rotate
Industry Misinterpretations 129: Smalltalk in Small Places podcast - James Robertson and John McIntosh - 2009
The preview of McIntosh's iPhone/Touch App Store apps based on Squeak and Seaside: he describes cutting down the image, connecting with UIkit (and webkit?), the objective-c bridge, and porting the VM itself.
In the comments, John McIntosh complains about the lack of an Android Squeak VM.
Moving to Symbian S60: One Year Later | March 2009
A techie user's experience
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Nokia's Ovi Store will eventually help that, but everything from Nokia MOSH (now folded into the upcoming Ovi Store) to Nokia Download! (on devices but rarely with anything new; will also be folded into the Ovi Store) to retail software stores --- there just isn't a quick and easy way to find new software and get it.
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signing and certificates for software. It's smart in idea, but horrible in implementation.
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Dr. Dobb's | Q&A: When Mobility and Open Source Collide | March 28, 2009
Really interesting interview with Symbian boss
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The web browser is a good example, on a pc it may make sense to ask a user to find, click, type, and browse the web or look for a service. In a mobile, converged product, you need to help the user be present with the service even or especially when they are driving or have the product in a pocket or handbag, and requiring them to constantly select 'yes' or to type in forms etc. are real headaches for a consumer.
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We will not provide a store front, but will help the community create multiple online stores from which they can generate revenue for themselves and the developer.
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Dr. Dobb's Update : Editor's Note What's One More Operating System, More or Less?
This Symbian system (aka Psion , EPOC and Nokia S60) was well loved for its well though out personal organizer or PIM applications. Now, smartphone users seems more interested in e-mail, music and games. <s>I am interested to see if Symbian OS still has a profitable niche.</s> Symbian is a market leader in the new market.
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Add Sticky NoteIn this regard, SymbianOS may have a leg up on Apple's App Store and even Nokia's Ovi Store, in that the "Symbian Application Inventory" will be free for developers. That's what you call "incentive," but is it enough?
- Before it attracts app developers, it has to attract hardware integrators. There is plenty of hardware out there,
but isn't this selling in far lower volumes than Linux or the proprietary smartphone OSes.
As far as I can tell, it has attention from the biggest smartphone integrator of them all: Nokia, who, as far as I can tell, uses it in the best selling N95 family. This ratchets up the competion with Apple and RIM another notch. - on 2009-05-11
- Before it attracts app developers, it has to attract hardware integrators. There is plenty of hardware out there,
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