Developing software for mobile phones is such a challenge! Not only do you have to deal with the wide variety of hardware, you’d also have to deal with the different platforms available. Imagine trying to make your mobile application or game available on the Symbian, Java, Windows Mobile, Android, iPhone OS, Blackberry, Danger platforms! Continue reading …
Nokia has announced the new line of XpressMusic mobile phones called the X series. Introducing the new X series are the Nokia X6 and X3 cell phones expected to be released on the fourth quarter of 2009. The X6 is really looking sleek at 111mm x 51mm x 13.8mm with a 3.2 inch screen.
The guys over at Symbian Customer Operations decided to tinker around and make the Symbian operating system run on an ordinary Intel Atom based PC. Showcasing Symbian’s capabilities of being able to run on even a desktop computer presents a world of possibilities. Not that Symbian is already running on majority of the mobile phones out on the market.
I wonder what this tells us of the future of Maemo –the Linux operating system running on it’s N8xx mobile gadgets. Nokia does have a quite power list of software in its arsenal — Maemo, QT (which Nokia acquired a while back) and Symbian to name a few. It would be nice to see how Nokia would come up with these to introduce the next major development towards a truly connected phone.
