It has been announced that Nokia is to cut 7000 jobs and Accenture will be taking on 3000 of them. Symbian activities will be outsourced to Accenture. Accenture will also provide software services for Nokia’s future smartphones such as Windows Phone.
This is probably good news for the 3000 moving to Accenture. Accenture is the best […]

Nokia have just announced that they have updated their mobile web templates that I first mentioned May last year.
The templates allow mobile web sites to be easily created that have a generic mobile look and feel. They can also be embedded in apps (read into a HTML control) but I wouldn’t recommend doing so as […]

One factor when determining choice of platform is the target country. Market research is often global and it can be easy to miss that some platforms are much more popular in some countries. There’s a recent article at cellular news that gives some useful figures for the UK, USA, Germany, Italy, France and Australia.
For example, […]

After assimilating Nokia’s announcements and reading others’ thoughts I still think Nokia have made a very bad decision. Despite many people saying it’s a coup for Microsoft, I am not convinced. I believe there’s a large longer-term risk that existing WP7 OEMs will abandon WP7 leading to WP7 becoming a Nokia-only OS. Nokia and Microsoft […]

Well, Nokia made their announcement that they are going to use Windows Phone 7 as their "principal smartphone strategy". They will "bring Windows Phone to a larger range of price points" tends to suggest that Symbian and MeeGo will be phased out over time. I am surprised because I don’t believe this is the correct […]

There has been lots of media interest in the latest Canalys research that shows that Android has become the World’s leading smartphone platform (in Q4 2010). There has also been lots of speculation as to what Nokia CEO Stephen Elop meant when he said that "We must build, catalyse or join a competitive eco-system" and […]

There’s an enlightening article at The Register on Charles Davies’ (was Psion’s first employee) views on Symbian. He admits that the owner-licensees "chose not to have a common platform: it was common only from the waist down."
Also…
"Then we had Platform Security which was incredibly disruptive – more disruptive than people thought. And we did it […]