Nokia recently purchased Psion's share in Symbian, giving Nokia a controlling interest, while Motorola has defected from the Symbian camp. Although Symbian has technical merit, it remains to be seen to what extent it can remain a multivendor OS for smartphones, or whether it becomes a Nokia-dominated platform. Symbian also has work to do in gaining mind share in the United States, where alternatives are better known.
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PETER RYSAVY is president of Rysavy Research (www.rysavy.com), a consulting firm specializing in wireless networking.We defined wireless mobile platforms as data-capable mobile devices operating over wireless networks--smartphones; PDAs with phone capabilities; PDAs connected to mobile phones using IR, Bluetooth or cable, for example; and PDAs with WLAN capabilities. We excluded notebooks.
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