Comments on: Big companies join Symbian Foundation, let slip the dogs of OHA!

By: christexaport

christexaport — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:19:36 +0000

Symbian OS is the smartphone market leader, not a Android rival. And they can’t be following in Google’s footsteps in R&D when they’ve led the industry in that for years, too. Nokia isn’t the only Symbian device maker, and won’t be the only Symbian Foundation device maker. Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, LG, Samsung, and Motorola are all Symbian device makers, and founding members of the Symbian Foundation, so they already have the leaders of device manufacturing signed up, unlike Android, which is just gaining participants.

Nokia holds the overwhelming developer community lead, with the entire Symbian, c++, Python, Mscript, Qt, Flashlite, Java, S60WRT and Web2.0 developers all continuing to contribute applications for years and to come.

The Symbian OS is a full fledged OS, so isn’t for everyone. And initial impressions on early release devices versus present updated firmware will prove no smartphone maker has more stable devices with near the power of S60 devices, especially the E90, E71, N82, N95 8gb, and 5800 XpressMusic.

But I expect Android to prevail alongside Symbian, and others like RIM and WinMo to combine or suffer.

By: Likeabite

Likeabite — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:22:11 +0000

I still think Nokia is the one to beat here even though I’ve never used any of their phones. They have the largest smartphone marketshare and the most money…they’ll win in the end.

By: Truman

Truman — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:34:09 +0000

Um – google would be AHEAD of Nokia? Nokia’s had ~4 years to do what google had the INITIATIVE to do. Nokia phones are always slow and have crapy looking user interfaces. I’ve owned the E71, E90, N71 and so on. Fail. I wish they worked better, but they don’t. Once a phone has threaded messaging with delivery/read reports, email integration, contact management, call quality, internet speed… its pretty much done. I’ve never had a phone that did everything just right… and I anticipate that changing with the GPhone; I’ll post tomorrow after I get it.

By: gocubs

gocubs — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:08:00 +0000

i think i would tend to agree with jdslim more. google has smart engineers no doubt, but there are slight differences between writing a linux kernel and baking a phone os which should give nokia an edge over google’s headstart.

By: swaggerlikeme

swaggerlikeme — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:43:57 +0000

Google will have about a year ahead of Nokia. I would expect they will get a large following from the developers. Besides who’s to say google won’t just by a phone maker?

By: Jdslim

Jdslim — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:51:43 +0000

Should be interestoing. Nokia might have a slight advantage over google here. If this goes through Nokia would be the maker of the hardware and software while Google has to find others to make harware since they only makes the android OS. I am interested if this might effect other phone using symbian software such as the Ericcsons.