MWC: First Bada phone from Samsung – the Wave

Rating: Pitched as an affordable iPhone
Samsung’s proprietary mobile OS, bada, become a reality with the launch of the Wave. Priced at around € 330, this handset will be pitched as an affordable alternative to the iPhone in a £6 million advertising campaign.
Although bada was painted originally as an OS for the low end, the [...]

Vodafone promises 700+ apps on 360 launch

Rating: Biggest shock is that V 360 is cross handset platform and cross network
An ambitious plan to have at least 700 mobile applications up and running for the launch of Vodafone 360 was revealed yesterday [28th October 2009]. This contrasts sharply with the 243 apps which were purportedly available for the release of the first [...]

Vodafone’s 360 showcase handset teaser

Rating: Forgets to mention it’s the first Limo R2 phone
As Press preview announcements – such as the one for Motorola’s Android phone – are now making news, how about Vodafone’s attempt to lure hacks to view the Samsung H1? The H1 will showcase Vodafone’s new 360 Internet services for both mobile and PC environments.
Two days [...]

Symbian transformation to Open will take time

Rating: Legal and technical hurdles to overcome
The momentous news that Nokia intends to help transform Symbian into an open source OS has taken most observers – and plenty of affected employees, too – completely by surprise.
However, the open source code for the Symbian Foundation won’t be appearing on user group sites tomorrow.
It’s going to take [...]

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Nokia says Open Source developers need a business lesson

One of the tricky aspects of developing open source software has always been the monetisation of it. It goes against against the ethos of open source and the licensing agreement, which in general says that code has to be made re-available to the open source community if an application/development is built using open source.Dr Ari [...]

Android vs LiMo.

Rating: Does there have to be a winner?
I mentioned LiMo’s expanding roster of companies involved in the development of the LiMo foundation the other day. When I saw Greg Kumparak’s interesting article over at Mobilecrunch in which he gives an relatively tech free explanation of the difference between the two Linux based platforms, I thought [...]

LiMo foundation expands.

Rating: LiMo tastic kids!
They Say: The LiMo foundation, which was set up in 2007 and conceived to deliver and create a globally consistent software platform based upon Mobile Linux have announced the addition of Infineon Technologies, Kvaleberg AS, Mozilla Corporation, Red Bend Software, Sagem Mobiles, SFR, SK Telecom and Verizon Wireless as new member companies.
Set [...]

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