Android versus Symbian by Barbora Misakova

In this summer Nokia came with an idea to buy remaining shares in UK-based smartphone software maker Symbian. Symbian software is used in two-thirds of smartphones, but the problem is, that Google’s Android can be in a very short time its real rival. For example Apple’s iPhone is based on this Google’s software and still more new categories of phones too. That’s why it is normal “that Nokia is worried by the rise of lower-cost operating systems from Google Android and LiMo Foundation.” said analyst Neil Mawston from Strategy Analytics. What is the Android? It is new operating system for mobile phones which contains lot of applications which are helpful in communication. Applications such as Google Mail, Google Talk, Calendar, YouTube or Google maps are platitude. Interesting application is that one which can by using phone camera read the bar code of some product, what can be really handy sometimes. Of course Google’s Android will come with others and I would say more interesting applications, which can prepare really hard times for Nokia Symbian software.

But Nokia’s Executive Vice President for Devices Kai Oistamo is quite optimistic. As he said on a conference of Symbian partners and developers “I strongly believe an open ecosystem wins over an ecosystem run by a captain.” As he added, collaboration is the key. Nokia hopes that making the platform freely available to developers will encourage them to build innovative applications and so help it win back market share. Even though Nokia has sold more than 180 million Symbian smartphones, the power of new technology from Google, Apple and RIM is still growing up and so threatening the position of Symbian on the market. If the $410 million investment will be the right step and create a good field for competition is still a question. We have to wait on the answer till June 2010 when Nokia expects to release the first unified Symbian Foundation software and introduce its brand new platform.


related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081022/tc_nm/us_nokia_symbian;_ylt=Ai6JJTe135QOEALtED5JkV6s0NUE

by Barbora Misakova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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