5 years
As announced earlier, Microsoft will start the transition to Opera-based browser and App Store this month. Microsoft confirmed that owners of classic Nokia based on Series 40, Series 60, Symbian, Asha or Nokia X will receive mess...
by Surur
7 years
The Financial Times reports that Nokia will send its final shipments of Symbian handsets to store shelves this summer. Their Windows Phone shipments only surpassed their Symbian shipments in Q4 2012 and Nokia still shipped 500,000...
by Surur
7 years
There are piles of crazed Nokia fans who believe Nokia would have been better off sticking with Symbian than moving to Windows Phone, or at the very least that the company transitioned too fast from the legacy operating system. No...
by Surur
8 years
Besides Statcounter, another company which measures market share by browser usage is Hitlinks, with their NetMarketShare product. Their numbers for July is out, and it shows for the first time that Windows Phone has overtaken Symb...
by Surur
8 years
It appears Nokia is turning the screws on their Symbian developers in an attempt to get them to move to Windows Phone 7. The developer of the best known Symbian app, twitter client Gravity, Jan Ole Suhr, has apparently been booted...
by Surur
8 years
Unlike Microsoft Nokia has come to the realization that it needs to do more than rely on their brand name to transition their legacy users to their new operating system. Speaking at their earnings conference call, Stephen El...
by Surur
8 years
Trying to win over their Symbian user base to Windows Phone 7, Nokia has released an app for Symbian which simulates Windows Phone 7 on their phones. The 2.7 Mb app is described as below: TRY IT LIKE YOU OWN IT With this interacti...
by Surur
8 years
Allaboutphones.nl have published this review of the HTC Radar vs the Nokia 701. Ignoring the hardware features, the review actually gives us a look into why Nokia chose to jump ship to Windows Phone rather than stick with Symbian,...
by Surur
8 years
On the eve of Nokia’s big Windows Phone 7 announcement a poll over at AllaboutSymbian.com makes for interesting reading. According to the long-lived poll, which has been running for the last 6 months now, 48.58% of Symbian ...
by Surur
8 years
Well before Nokia decided to go Windows Phone 7 Microsoft already had a strategic partnership to bring its productivity apps to their Symbian platform. Today Microsoft has announced it will be delivering some more fruits of ...