In June of 2008, Nokia has announced that it is acquiring full ownership of Symbian to make the operating system open source. Symbian a leading mobile phone operating system in the world is used not only by Nokia mobile phones but by other phone manufacturers such as Samsung, Sharp, Fujitsu, Mitsubishi, Sendo and Sony Ericsson. The decision to take the open source route is one of the biggest if not the biggest open source conversion project. It was a bold move on the part of Nokia. I could just imagine the amount of license agreements that needs to be ironed out in order to open source all of the source code in the mobile operating system.

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Well for those of us who have been waiting fervently for the Nokia N900. I am excited to tell you that the shipment of the Nokia N900 has started. After an initial target month of October, Nokia decided to postpone the delivery date to run more tests and get feedback from the users that were given pre-production units of the Nokia N900 at the Maemo summit.

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With the continued growth of the mobile space, Samsung has announced it’s foray into the mobile operating system space. Samsung has announced it’s own open mobile platform called Bada (means “Ocean” in Korean). Bada joins the already existing mobile OS such as Android, Blackberry OS, iPhone OS, Maemo, Symbian, WebOS and Windows Mobile to name some.

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It looks like a couple of Android updating issues have cropped up recently. One of them is regarding users of the T-Mobile G1 mobile phone. I4U has posted an article saying that T-Mobile G1 users may not be able to get updates beyond the current Android version 1.5 due to phone memory limitations according to an Android developer. Continue reading …

This is really getting exciting, the upcoming models of connected phones will soon be able to display a web page like this one here at connectedphone.com without having to scroll horizontally. I think this is one of those features that essentially blur the line between what a computer is and what a mobile phone is.

EE Times has written an article that the next iteration of the Android open mobile platform, version 2.0 aka Donut, will support QVGA, HVGA and WVGA resolutions, developer’s revealed in one session. Google developers were reluctant to provide details, but WVGA generally refers to an 800 to 854 x 480 pixel resolution.

I’ve just read from the Android Developer’s Blog the announcement of the second Android Developer Challenge (ADC). The expanded ADC 2 to involve a very important part of the Android community—the users who will be running these applications.

Users of Android-powered devices with Android Market will now get to participate the judging of the winner in ADC 2. By downloading a special Android judging application and use it to download and rank applications submitted to the Challenge.

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According to NY Times, there may be as many as 18 Android based mobile phones available on the market around the world before the end of 2009 as disclosed by Google. The figure which can reach 20 doesn’t include devices that use Android but didn’t inform Google of its use.

Although, there wasn’t any specifics on who the manufacturer was, based on what I have been reading the past several days these would already include HTC, Samsung on the list. Sony Ericsson has decided to delay it’s Android based mobile phone until next year pending the release of the second version of the Android OS.

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I’ve read an article about the HTC Magic due to arrive in Asia over at Cnet. It looks like the HTC Magic which runs on the open mobile platform called Android will be available in Singapore this coming June at around 700+ USD without a contract.

What’s exciting about the Asian version of the HTC Magic is that it won’t be exclusive to any of the Asian telcos in the region. And, get this, it’s going to have support for Microsoft Exchange. In fact Damian Koh over at Cnet Asia was able to sync it with Microsoft Outlook without any hassle.

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Apparently Intel and Nokia thinks that the world needs yet another open mobile platform besides Android, Limo, OpenMoko, Maemo and whatever else is out there.

Intel and Nokia have announced the oFono project which is an open source project for developing an open source telephony solution. oFono.org is a place to bring developers together around designing an infrastructure for building mobile telephony (GSM/UMTS) applications.

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