AT&T Brings Symbian S60 to the Prepaid Masses
AT&T has begun offering the Nokia N75 as a GoPhone Pick Your Plan offering. This is the first time that the S60 platform has been released and promoted in a prepaid offering. The nation’s largest wireless service provider has been expanding efforts to increase data usage amongst prepaid users. This has largely been spurred by […]
Motorola Purchases 50% of UI Holdings AB
Motorola has agreed to purchase 50% of UI Holdings AB from Sony Ericsson under a new joint agreement announced in a press release today. UI Holdings is the parent company of UIQ Technology, the company responsible for maintaining and licensing the user interface and Symbian platform used currently on Sony Ericsson handsets such as the […]
Sony Ericsson to Source First Windows Mobile Device from HTC
CNNMoney is reporting that Sony Ericsson has placed an order for 1 million plus handsets running Windows Mobile 6 scheduled for launch in the second half of 2008. This would mark the first time the company has sought a Windows Mobile based device for its lineup from a third-party manufacturer, relying instead on Symbian/UIQ for […]
CTIA Coverage Begins… With Series 60 on CDMA
We have intentionally delayed our coverage of CTIA by about 24 hours, to let all the dust clear and try to give more accurate coverage. LG today announced they were licensing the Symbian Series 60 platform from Nokia (which recently bought control of Symbian), and intend to use it not only on GSM, but on […]