Doesn't surprise me because Nokia still has a big following in Europe. There's a really strong anti Microsoft feeling in Europe from what I hear which is understandable. Still, it may be a move to diversify the product line but all these smaller operating systems are going to find themselves in a really tight 3 way squeeze from the big players.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Flor Lynch" <florlync@xxxxxx>
To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 10:22 AM Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: disturbing development
But look at this: ** Nokia in full buy-out of Symbian ** Finnish phone giant Nokia is paying £209m to acquire total control of handset software firm Symbian. < http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/1/low/business/7470772.stm > ** BBC Daily E-mail ** Choose the news and sport headlines you want - when you want them, all in one daily e-mail < http://www.bbc.co.uk/email >----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Granados" <gsgranados@xxxxxxxxxxx>To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 5:21 PM Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: disturbing development There doesn't need to be. Anyone who has been following the mobile geoprogress at all knew that it was based on the sender engine and runs only onWin Mobile and there were never plans to release a Nokia ready version at launch. Whether it gets ported later I have no idea but there's really no need. As a side note to this, get ready for Nokia to get off the simbien band wagon at some point. Through my consulting work I've heard through the pipeline that Nokia is going to start looking at win mobile much more closely. Win mobile devices, especially the ones from HTC are starting tomake head way against the crackberries which is something the other hand set providers really like and want to cash in on. Win Mobile is also holding up favorably against the IPhone in business circles as well. I really stronglythink the over all market is going to settle out with three OS's. Win Mobile, Android and the IPhone. RIM is not going to with stand companieslike Apple, Microsoft and most importantly Google. Let's hope the adaptivesoftware companies realize this and move things like the KNFB reader on towin mobile as well when the camera and image processing is there. I'd hateto see a huge segment of our community trapped in an under represented OS again. Go CF and Sender.;) Oh and Nokia phones are ugly. (just my opinion)----- Original Message -----From: "Claude Everett" <ceverett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 7:46 AM Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: disturbing developmentI am disturbed that in all the verbiage there is not a statement that the product does not work with the Mobile Speak series 60 product even though this product is mentioned in the article. Claude Everett American by chance, Californian by choice. Everyone has a disability, some are more aware of it than others. -----Original Message----- From: gps-talkusers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gps-talkusers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Charles LaPierre Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 7:30 AM To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: disturbing development Hi Claude, I received that email announcement from Flying Blind as well and did not see the reference that mobile Geo would be on a Symbian based smartphone. In fact it will not be as the Sendero SDK will only run on Windows Mobile based smartphones. So I am not sure where you got that information from but mobile Geo will NOT run on the Symbian based N-82. Hope this clears this up. Charles. At 06:30 AM 6/24/2008, you wrote:I received a Add newsletter from Flying Blind, LLC today.http://www.flying-blind.com/enews/06242008/text.html the newsletter infers (by not specifically stating that it is not compatible with ),that the new GPS software Mobile Geo, from Sendero and in collaboration with CodeFactory is useable on Symbian 60/3 phones like the N-82. hopefully this will be corrected., many people do not know or understand that a "Smart Phone" is not one of these phones. Claude Everett American by chance, Californian by choice. Everyone has a disability, some are more aware of it than others.Charles M. La Pierre CTO Sendero Group "The GPS company." Distributors of the mPower, PK, Victor Stream, Voice Sense, KNFB Mobile Reader, Talks, Miniguide and ID Mate 1-888-757-6810 Lat. 37 15' 25" N Lon: 121 53' 04" W __________ NOD32 3213 (20080624) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com