Symbian, 9210, XDA, O2 (UK Cellular network) and other info

[N9210]

There is a very intresting article in the register (www.theregister.co.uk). It's basically talking about the Mobile networks in the UK, and about not being enough room for all of them so the author gives his opinion on which one will lose out (O2 in case you couldn't guess from the topic heading). Apart from that the piece also goes into handset Operating systems with a good mention for Symbian, and also goes on to give this info about the 9210 The most successful PDA in Europe is the Nokia 9210; this sold 53,000 units in a quarter..

This is qite a long article in the register, but well worth the read - especially for UK Mobile users (even more so for O2 customers). Considering the topic in the CW forum ( http://www.allabouter6.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3116 ) then the following paragraph is quite intresting..

This is more than a matter of looking to see who is rich, Microsoft having conquered the desktop and having made good inroads to the living room now wants the bedroom with x-box and your pocket with Smartphone 2002. But Smartphone is failing to impress handset manufacturers. The rival Symbian operating system is being used by Nokia, Motorola, SonyEricsson, Siemens, Matsushita (Panasonic) and Samsung. Just the top three from that list is 80% of the handset market. Microsoft has licenced to the new British start up Sendo, and the Far East PC clone makers TCL, Compal and HTC. Total current mobile phone market share less than 0.1%. Samsung also has a licence for Smartphone 2002, but is known to be working on Linux, and Palm devices as well as Smartphone and Symbian. None of this looks too good for Microsoft. It's worse because at the beginning of this year Siemens jumped ship from Microsoft to Symbian.

As a final note, the following extract from the piece, is, to say the least very kind; The XDA is an OK product,. I've posted in here a while ago that I was testing an XDA for work with the view to getting them as some sort of standard PDA for the company, looks like we might be binning that idea - not a very good product as all - far to unflexable (os & software - not the hardware ).

Regards

[upponalle]

Let's see what feedback comes from the MS conference this week in Redmond. Maybe will know more how MS will make us move away from Symbian and towards Smartphone 2002...