LONDON, England - Earlier today we caught up with Lee Williams, who heads up S60. Given the scale of the news about Symbian (we’re still in shock, but in a good way) it was a brilliant opportunity for us to get some insight from one of those most deeply involved. As head of S60 Lee is hugely positive about the move, how it’ll impact Nokia and the industry as a whole. Lee also knows and understands how the Foundation is going to work, both relative to Nokia and in and of itself. Full video after the jump…
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GLOBAL – Nokia today announced the creation of the Symbian Foundation, but what is it exactly, and what does it mean for the rest of us? The Foundation has the backing of key industry players including Sony Ericsson, Motorola, Samsung, networks including DOCOMO and Vodafone and chip makers ST Microelectronics and Texas Instruments. By making the Symbian Platform fully open source, it means anyone can develop for it, there’ll be a single, unified operating system for mobile phones and rapid innovation of services and software.
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ESPOO, Finland – Picked up on a few items today. I’m supposed to be on mid-sumer holiday, but came across a few particularly interesting bits that I thought I should share.
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INTERNATIONAL – Back in April the team over on the See Into S60 blog launched a video contest, dubbed Show your S60 Smarts. The idea? Simply to find the best stories for why many of us love certain S60 apps, and how they become an intrinsic part of our day-to-day. The response was awesome, with heaps of creative short videos uploaded to the Show your S60 Smarts group on YouTube. You’ll notice one of the winning vids in the top right-hand side of our site in ‘video of the day’.
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ESPOO, Finland – Would you be surprised to know the iPhone is a talking point within Nokia? Of course you wouldn’t. Now would you be surprised to hear the S60 calculator hasn’t been touched (bar minor bug fixes) in almost eight years? But what have the two got in common?
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BARCELONA, Spain – Developers landed in Barcelona last week for the annual S60 Summit. With plenty to share they were out in force showing off the latest innovations, looking into the future and doing a bit of networking (lubricated by some local vino, no doubt).
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BARCELONA, Spain This year’s S60 Summit kicked off in Barcelona yesterday. The two-day event is laser-focussed on exploring future trends and visions for Nokia’s global S60 software platform, and promises a sprinkle of extra spice with a bunch of exciting announcements.
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INTERNATIONAL – Over the past couple of years we’ve witnessed an explosion of exciting new flavours of S60 applications. Masses of apps have been enabled to evolve and truly spring to life thanks to a number of key factors, such as the proliferation of faster data connections, and smart accessible advances such as GPS in devices.
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ESPOO, Finland – For just about a year, we’ve been taunted with the
prospects of Widgets on our devices. Now we’ve got them, we don’t know
what to do with ourselves!
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LONDON, England - Earlier today we caught up with Lee Williams, who heads up S60. Given the scale of the news about Symbian (we’re still in shock, but in a good way) it was a brilliant opportunity for us to get some insight from one of those most deeply involved. As head of S60 Lee is hugely positive about the move, how it’ll impact Nokia and the industry as a whole. Lee also knows and understands how the Foundation is going to work, both relative to Nokia and in and of itself. Full video after the jump…
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