Android & S60 Touch – will they be enough?

Samsung is set to overtake Nokia as the world's largest smartphone maker this quarter, according to research published today by analyst Nomura which predicts the troubled Finnish mobile giant will sink into third place behind...

The success of Google's Android platform has been impressive thus far - but market watcher Gartner believes that it's on form to become the dominant smartphone operating system, predicting that it will grow to almost half the...

Android will overtake Symbian as the most used smartphone operating system next year, IDC has predicted. According to TechRadar, IDC Mobile Tracker has suggested that Google’s Android OS will see an increase of 7.3 per...

Sony Ericsson has said it has no future of developing handsets based on the Symbian operating system championed by Finnish rival Nokia.In a statement to Bloomberg Businessweek, Sony Ericsson spokesperson Aldo Liguori confirmed...

A report suggests that Google's Android mobile operating system will surpass rivals to become number two in the global smartphone market.In a forecast, market research firm Gartner has predicted that Google's Android operating...

The surge in sales of Google-based Android handsets in the first three months of 2010 may well mean the end of the traditional feature phone at least in the mobile contract market. This could bode badly for the likes of Symbian...

Finnish phone maker Nokia has decided to stop using the Symbian operating system in its future high-end smartphones.Instead, new Nokia N-series smartphones will come loaded with the Linux-based MeeGo mobile OS, the company has...

Figures published by research powerhouse Gartner show that Android is now the fourth most popular operating system in the booming smartphone market behind Symbian, RIM and iPhone OS. Google's mobile platform was on 9.6 percent of...

Finnish manufacturer Nokia has released a new smartphone called the C5 which looks like a direct replacement for the Nokia 6x00 series and will be positioned as an entry level smartphone for the masses. As expected, it runs on...

News that Symbian, the world's most popular mobile platform, has been released as an open source product, has been met with mixed reactions partly because it took Nokia so long to commit Symbian to the open source...

Finnish mobile phone giant, Nokia, has just upped the ante in the mobile operating system domain by announcing an update to the existing Symbian software with the new ‘Symbian ^4’ OS in the next year. Aiming at...

Popular online music service Spotify has rolled out a version of its mobile music application for a number of Nokia phones including those which run on the Symbian platform.The mobile app, which is currently available for iPhones...

In a move aimed at encouraging more developers to create apps for its upcoming devices like the N900, Nokia has created a port for the Qt framework to Maemo 5 operating system.The Qt framework is essentially based on C++ and it...

Nokia vehemently denied that it is working on an Android smartphone shortly after the Guardian reported that the Finnish manufacturer was mulling plans to launch a touchscreen Android device in September 2009. A spokesperson for...

Finnish mobile phone manufacturer Nokia is set to announce a mobile device which will be running on Google's Android software environment, a decision that may affect the mobile market landscape significantly. The Guardian...