8 Mar 2009
A new report from Infomra Telcoms & media says that mobile handset vendors are to put “openness” near the top of there development list to help increase revenues and reduce costs.
Last Thursday a statement released by Informa showed that mobile operating systems (OS) and application developments are already benefiting significantly from an open source input stream. The two most significant players that are using open source technology at the moment are Googles Android and Symbian OS and according to the analyst firm LiMo.
Gavin Byrne, a research analyst at Informa, was quoted as saying in the report: “The smartphone segment is no longer as simple as it was a few years ago. Since early 2007, Symbian, Microsoft, Linux and BlackBerry [platforms] have been joined by Apple’s OS X iPhone, Android, and recently Palm’s Web OS.”
Byrne also said “The decision to move Symbian to open source is crucial in maintaining its leadership over Android, Linux and Microsoft, in an increasingly competitive market”
Informa stated that in a recent report that 49% of the smartphones manufactured last were based on a Symbian OS, which was a drop from 65% in the previous year, with the drop in performance blamed on problems with Nokia’s smartphones which use the Symbian system combined the growing popularity of other competing platforms such as Microsoft Windows Mobile, OS X iPhone, BlackBerry OS, Android and Linux.
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