Nokia is leading the charge among mobile phone manufacturers and service providers to make the Symbian OS the standard in mobile devices. Nokia, who already owned 48% of Symbian Limited, is buying the remaining shares and will be moving the company to a royalty-free licensing model. At the same time they're working with AT&T, LG Electronics, Motorola, NTT DOCOMO, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, ... [ read the full article ]
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This article actually made me say "ugh!" I know that Windows Mobile and the iPhone are not everyone's flavor, but Symbian, for me, has always meant phones with proprietary connections and software, so that you are locked into using data plans, MMS, and buying ringtones, rather than the ability to sync your own content between phone and PC without paying extra for it. I am curious to see more of Google's Android and if it can make a dent in the phone market.
Symbian phones actually support SyncML, recent Nokia models (like E71) come with fully freatured but free MS Exchage sync, there are free sync applications for Windows and Linux. Nobody has to use MMS - feel free to email your photos, or send via Bluetooth/IrDA on a short range, or connect to a LAN and upload via FTP. And you can put just about any music file, and in most recent models video files too, as a ringtone.
Soo...your point was?
(note: I am not a Symbian fan. I look forward to Linux is mobile devices)
Symbian phones actually support SyncML, recent Nokia models (like E71) come with fully freatured but free MS Exchage sync, there are free sync applications for Windows and Linux. Nobody has to use MMS - feel free to email your photos, or send via Bluetooth/IrDA on a short range, or connect to a LAN and upload via FTP. And you can put just about any music file, and in most recent models video files too, as a ringtone.
Soo...your point was?
(note: I am not a Symbian fan. I look forward to Linux is mobile devices)
My point is there are many Symbian phones out there where you "might" be able to get to the "photos" folder for instance. Symbian might be an open OS, but it's still being locked down and on locked phones, and those that have locks on certain things (photos, ringtones, file sharing, email, etc.) are trying to make a buck by having you use MMS or data plans. That was my point. :-)
