Microsoft partners with cell phone foe Symbian
Posted by malebolgia on 22 March 2005 - 18:36 · 6 comments & 1624 views
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#1 Posted by Ivand on 22 Mar 2005 - 18:43
- Damn, I was just going to send this to the newsdesk this morning!
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#2 Posted by Zero1 on 22 Mar 2005 - 18:48
- Very nice, its good to see some form of co-operation between the two main phone OS manufacturers - hopefully we'll see more of its kind in the foreseeable future.
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#3 Posted by nvizible on 22 Mar 2005 - 19:48
- well... talk of the devil, eh?
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#4 Posted by markyp23 on 25 Mar 2005 - 10:04
- Sounds good but I dont see myself ever doing email off a phone. I know you can do it already.
Symbian, based in London, said it will develop software that lets Symbian phones work with Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 e-mail, calendar, contacts and other personal-information tools, then make it available to Symbian licensees. Licensing terms were not disclosed. Both companies say the deal is meant to help sell more Symbian-based phones to corporate clientele. These handsets are known as smart phones because they have advanced capabilities such as word processing. Symbian is closely aligned with the smart-phone plans of Fujitsu and Nokia. Nokia is a part owner of Symbian.
However, he did note that developers are expecting Microsoft to update the prototype PowerMac-based Xenon kits with more advanced hardware "pretty much any day now" - an important step for the company, since it's still planning to launch the next-generation Xbox before the end of the year, and industry rumours suggest that it may even have recently pulled the launch schedule forward by several weeks.
Sony plans to show the next-generation PlayStation off in public for the first time at its pre-E3 conference in Los Angeles in May, where it will almost certainly debut within a few hours of the public unveilings of Nintendo's Revolution and Microsoft's next-gen Xbox.
However, the system - which is based on a new chip called Cell, which was co-developed by IBM and Sony, and an NVIDIA graphics board - is not expected to start shipping to consumers until the second quarter of 2006 at the earliest.