Now that Nokia’s has announced their purchase of Symbian and their attempt to open source it, it is time to try and see how the market of operating systems looks like today - especially with regards to what is going to happen to Windows Mobile. As Michael Mace puts it rather nicely - it’s the end of a dream: “No matter how it works out in the long run, the purchase of Symbian by Nokia marks the end of a
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | July 7th, 2008 | Filed under Clients, Technology
Windows Mobile has about 12% market share in the mobile handsets market worldwide. In the past several months a trend has started to show - the strength of Windows Mobile over Linux distributions. The migration to Linux In the past several years, there were two main handset platforms for smart phones: Symbian and Windows Mobile. While Symbian enjoyed a large market share, Windows Mobile was starting to gain ground - especially because it was not owned by a handset
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | June 16th, 2008 | Filed under Clients
MobileCrunch recently compared Android OS with LiMo. Both are viewed as Linux-based platforms for handsets. However, I think they missed a crucial point - Android OS is simply not Linux.I’d like to first fix the comparison table on MobileCrunch’s post based on the interesting comments found in that specific post. Here is a list to summarize the differences: An SDK will be available in LiMo “soon”. Probably later on this year. With Android having one, I am sure
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | June 2nd, 2008 | Filed under Clients
