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Makers of Handsets Try To Avoid Microsoft | |
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| Time: 12:50 EST/17:50 GMT | News Source: NewsFactor | Posted By: Byron Hinson | ||
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After several false starts, Microsoft has launched an all-out assault on the mobile phone business. The prize: a chunk of the emerging market for PC-like "smart" phones, which could be one of the technology sector's next big things. Smart phones have color screens and can take digital photos, Web surf, send and receive e-mail, and play music and games. They make up a small but rising portion of cellphones sold. Of the 431 million cellphones expected to be sold this year, 14 million will be smart phones , up from 4 million last year, technology research firm IDC says. Microsoft, anticipating the day when PC and phone functions merge, has tried for three years to insert a miniature version of its Windows operating system into cellphones. | ||
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| #1 By 3339 (65.198.47.10) at 3/4/2003 4:03:27 PM |
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Contrary to what you think someone else said, he said: "Symbian is optimized for mobile devices," Plummer says. "An operating system transformed, however awkwardly, from some other platform is not."
A PDA is a mobile device. Moreover, the Psion handhelds had less memory and processing power than a modern cellphone. Also, Symbian began work on the cellphone OS five years ago. MS started from a PC OS to create an embedded OS (that still required substantially more memory and power) and then attempted to slim that down further. |
| #2 By 135 (213.61.245.251) at 3/5/2003 12:44:54 PM |
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As I recall I had already mobilized to oppose Symbian.
So it's all over for them! |
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