[gps-talkusers] Re: disturbing development
- From: "Flor Lynch" <florlync@xxxxxx>
- To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:32:37 +0100
It responds to another point made by Scott in his message. it also will
have implications for Windows Mobile.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael O. Hanson" <mhanson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 6:26 PM
Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: disturbing development
I'm not sure how the news item below impacts the thread of this message
stream.
----- Original Message -----
>From: "Flor Lynch" <florlync@xxxxxx>
To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 12:22 PM
Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: disturbing development
> But look at this:
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> ** 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 >
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> Choose the news and sport headlines you want - when you want them, all
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> ----- 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 geo
> progress at all knew that it was based on the sender engine and runs only
> on
> Win 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 to
> make 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
> strongly
> think 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 companies
> like Apple, Microsoft and most importantly Google. Let's hope the
> adaptive
> software companies realize this and move things like the KNFB reader on to
> win mobile as well when the camera and image processing is there. I'd
> hate
> to 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 development
>
>
>>I 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
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