ZTE becomes world's 4th largest manufacturer, Android is top OS
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- AnonD-7769
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- 05 May 2011
Android OS is great i am in love with my desire HD
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- AnonD-291
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- 02 Feb 2011
bilal, 01 Feb 2011Symbian is still the top OS. nope
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- m@e
- 01 Feb 2011
adkane, 01 Feb 2011Guys you might wanna check this out http://communities-d... moreI read that too. You should always be sceptic when reading analyst reports. They quite often biased or just plain wrong for one reason or another.
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- Anonymous
- nsC
- 01 Feb 2011
i think that only chines buy zte handsets
and if manufactures make more low end and mid end android phone then android will dominate the market by far because most of the androids are high end and expensive unlike symbian
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- bilal
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- 01 Feb 2011
AnonD-291, 01 Feb 2011what do u mean by "just 2%"?? android has made... moreSymbian is still the top OS.
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- bilal
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- 01 Feb 2011
Don't be happy android fanboys. Symbian is still the top OS. There was a mistake in counting of number of handsets.
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- adkane
- ib3
- 01 Feb 2011
Guys you might wanna check this out
http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2011/02/paging-stats-police-canalys-jumped-gun-rather-badly-android-is-not-yet-ahead-of-symbian-but-will-be-.html
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- 01 Feb 2011
Some guy from Greece, 01 Feb 2011"but then why are so many vendors choosing android ove... more"Symbian is 4-5 years old and S^3 is 4 months old. Adroid is less than a year old. The versions that were sold in 2010"
i was talking about entire history. symbian software was released in 1997.
"He meant to say that 10 touchscreen devices were released with Symbian while 116 were with Adroid. 1 out 11 releases is Symbian but 3 out of 10 purchases is Adroid"
so what ?? if nokia wanted to be alone its their fault.
if they wants more manufacturers to produce symbian then, they could have made symbian free licensed software like android.
"...the Symbian Foundation announced in November 2010 that it would transition to "a legal entity responsible for licensing software and other intellectual property", with no operational responsibilities or staff.[5]. Along with this announcement, Nokia announced it would take over governance of the Symbian platform..."
i didnt know that. thanks for the info.
"Yes it is obvious. They cut costs. Adroid is developed mostly by Google, while with Symbian they would be on their own."
thats google's strategy to make android number 1 os, and it has paid off. android finally dethroned symbian fRom its 10 year reign.
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- 01 Feb 2011
AnonD-291, 01 Feb 2011ok let me get it straight:
symbian is open source and so... more"but then why are so many vendors choosing android over symbian ??? the reason is obvious."
Yes it is obvious. They cut costs. Adroid is developed mostly by Google, while with Symbian they would be on their own.
"symbian OS is over 14 years old !!! whereas android is just over 2 years old. "
Symbian is 4-5 years old and S^3 is 4 months old. Adroid is less than a year old. The versions that were sold in 2010.
He meant to say that 10 touchscreen devices were released with Symbian while 116 were with Adroid. 1 out 11 releases is Symbian but 3 out of 10 purchases is Adroid. You can tell easilly which is the most successful of them two.
"i think symbian is available for members of symbian foundation."
It isn't.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbian_Foundation
It says:
...the Symbian Foundation announced in November 2010 that it would transition to "a legal entity responsible for licensing software and other intellectual property", with no operational responsibilities or staff.[5]. Along with this announcement, Nokia announced it would take over governance of the Symbian platform...
"why did they ditch symbian and go for android ?"
Again: They cut costs. Adroid is developed mostly by Google, while with Symbian they would be on their own.
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- loveandroid
- bC7
- 01 Feb 2011
Earlier one had no choice. Except Symbian from Nokia. Nokia was once a household name. But things changed. iOS, and Android came. They came and things changed. Accept change. Yeah a new OS really gave the old Nokia a run for its money. We would never know how Symbian was when it arrived. Android has come a long way in 2 years. The OS will be one of the best. Just think of all the search engines we used earlier. Now it is Google all the way. Same is going to apply to mobiles. Google's Android all the way.
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- Anonymous
- PBR
- 01 Feb 2011
[deleted post]you know nothing about bmw, did you know bmw idrive can be integrated with an iphone ? anyway 325i 2007 owner here :), i feel sorry for nokia fanboy...
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- AnonD-291
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- 01 Feb 2011
adkane, 01 Feb 2011true. But u missed the point. There are a heck lot of andro... morewhat do u mean by "just 2%"??
android has made a 615 % growth over the previous year..... and its still growing... how can u expect it to be more than that?
and about "1 vs all" which u mentioned......
how did nokia become alone?? samsung and sony had symbian phones earlier, other manufacturers could have choosen symbian, but why didnt they?
why did they ditch symbian and go for android ?
google sure knows how to dominate.
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- 01 Feb 2011
AnonD-291, 01 Feb 2011can u show the source saying that symbian is no longer avai... moreno need to, is just simple common sense.
Nokia bought over symbian from symbian foundation and now nokia owns symbian fully. as the matter of fact, symbian foundation has ceased to exist. now all development of symbian are now in the hands of nokia.
is a good thing actually, seeing how symbian foundation has held back symbian with their slow progress.
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- 01 Feb 2011
adkane, 01 Feb 2011true. But u missed the point. There are a heck lot of andro... moreUsers differ from the os themselves. even though a lot of manufacturers use android, the fact remains that android overtook symbian. i have a lot of hopes for meego... i think its a competition for android and iphone os.
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- AnonD-291
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- 01 Feb 2011
adkane, 01 Feb 2011yup. Just that symbian is now no longer available for other... morecan u show the source saying that symbian is no longer available for other manufacturers.
i think symbian is available for members of symbian foundation.
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- adkane
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- 01 Feb 2011
AnonD-291, 01 Feb 2011well thats a nice story featuring chuck noris, sammy, henry... moretrue. But u missed the point. There are a heck lot of android users and only one symbian user left in the current market. So is like one vs all. That too android only overtook symbian by 2%.
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- 01 Feb 2011
AnonD-291, 01 Feb 2011but symbian is still open sourced right ?yup. Just that symbian is now no longer available for other manufacturers.
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- 01 Feb 2011
Anonymous, 01 Feb 2011Samsung, HTC, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, LG, Acer and several... morewell thats a nice story featuring chuck noris, sammy, henry, etc.
but u forgot to mention an important aspect of it.
symbian OS is over 14 years old !!! whereas android is just over 2 years old.
now considering that the story would be like :
chuck norris (14 year old manufacturing monster) used to beat 1 years old babies own his own. but the babies turned 2 and now they are beating the monster >> LOL.
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- AnonD-291
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- 01 Feb 2011
adkane, 01 Feb 2011nokia had bought symbian from symbian foundation back a whi... morebut symbian is still open sourced right ?
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- 01 Feb 2011
AnonD-291, 01 Feb 2011well bada is under development. so far its just a platform ... morenokia had bought symbian from symbian foundation back a while ago. Now is sort of the propierty os for nokia geddit?