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Bada, Samsung's New Open-Source Operating System: What's the Beef?

This week's big mobile news is the launch of bada, Samsung's own-brand operating system. In the few days since the news hit, however, there's been an awful lot of rumors, disinformation, misinformation and general blather. Does the ...READ»

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Nokia Says No to Android Smartphone

The world's largest cellphone company won't be making a Google Android-powered Smartphone. But Nokia's recent partnership with Intel means a new OS is inevitable.READ»

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Verizon Predicts Cellphone's Future: Only Four Operating Systems Rule

Verizon's has revealed how it plans to integrate the software side of next-generation cellphones into its business: It aims to support just four different operating systems. The problem with the current cell phone model, ...READ»

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Can Nokia's Ovi App Store Compete with Apple's?

Nokia's just pulled the wrappers off of its Ovi application store at Mobile World Congress--can it really compete against the might of Apple's App Store and the iTunes eco-system? Ovi is basically following on the coattails of ...READ»

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HTC's Android Phone Delayed

A couple of weeks back, we reported on this very blog that HTC's [TSE: 2498] new open-source phone running Google's [NASDAQ:GOOG] Android operating system was indeed on track for its Q4 release date. Now reports are surfacing that ...READ»

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Google's Android and Nokia's Symbian to Combine?

As the release of Google's [NASDAQ:GOOG] Android mobile phone operating system nears, speculation abounds. But here's a new rumor, fresh from the research firm J. Gold Associates: they say that Android and Nokia's Symbian will ...READ»

New Nokia Touch Interface Inspires Yawns

It's been known for a while that Nokia [NYSE:NOK] is taking their newly-minted purchase of the Symbian OS and making it touch-friendly. Now screenshots have emerged of the company's Touch version of its S60 software, giving Nokia ...READ»

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Symbian Demo's Touch-Screen OS

Topping off a week full of touch-screen smartphone news from Apple, Samsung and Nokia, Symbian today released a short video demonstrating some of the features and aesthetics of their touch-based operating system, dubbed S60. Symbian ...READ»

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