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Windows Phone 7: the next great smartphone OS

In recent years the mobile phone space has been upended with the rise of Android and iOS smartphone operating systems. But the arrival this month of Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 and Nokia's Symbian-based N8 make the battle for mobile computing a four horse race.

By Rodney Gedda | 21 October, 2010 11:59

Tags: Android, iPhone, Microsoft, operating system, smartphones, symbian, Windows Phone 7

Nokia goes after Google with open-source Symbian

Nokia has announced its Symbian mobile operating system will join the likes of Android and will become an open source operating system. The announcement was made Tuesday at the Smartphone Show in London and is seen as a bid to maintain and possibly grow its developer base. This move comes at the same time Google makes its Android source code available to developers. The Nokia news contradicts previous reports on Nokia adopting Android OS.

By Daniel Ionescu | 24 October, 2008 13:51

Tags: Nokia, symbian

Symbian deal will open up mobile platform market

The global battle to control the smarts in your smartphone escalated this week when some of the combatants redeployed their forces in two big moves.

Microsoft on Symbian's open-source move: Good luck with that

Microsoft has welcomed the transformation of the Symbian mobile-phone platform into an open source project, because the software giant contends the change will create a host of new problems for the Symbian community.