Thursday, June 30, 2005

Motorola to acquire Sendo assets Geekzone, New Zealand - 10 hours ago
... Some models were "feature phones" while the top line was based on the Series 60 interface, licenced from Nokia and based on the Symbian OS for smartphones. ...
Handango Buyer Survey Third-party software is a powerful influencer in the decision to purchase a smartphone or handheld, according to a recent Handango survey of mobile content users and their behavior.  The in-depth results from more than 14,000 buyers of mobile downloads revealed that the selection and quality of third-party software had a "strong influence" or "somewhat of an influence" on 69% of the users' decisions to purchase their mobile devices.  The availability of third-party software was also ranked as the third most important influencer in a device buying decision behind only "need in my personal life" and "need in my line of work".  .
Sun Java Wireless Toolkit Release includes Nokia SNAP Mobile APIs Nokia, a leading provider of connected, multiplayer Java games, and Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced the inclusion of Nokia's Scalable Network Application Package (SNAP) Mobile APIs in the beta release of the Sun Java Wireless Toolkit (version 2.3), formerly known as the J2ME Wireless Toolkit. For the first time, Sun's Java Wireless Toolkit incorporates a third-party developer application as part of the toolkit's External API feature. .