Siemens entscheidet sich für Symbian!!! - 500 Beiträge pro Seite

[Zirius]

Nach dem Erfolg mit Nokias Communicator, hier der nächste "milestone":

Psion PLC notes the announcement made today by its associate company Symbian Ltd. at 3GSM World Congress regarding Siemens’ adoption of the Symbian software platform for its future Smartphones. The press release is reproduced in full below :
SIEMENS ADOPTS SYMBIAN FOR SMARTPHONES
Siemens Signs Licensing Agreement To Use Symbian Software Platform For Its Future Smartphones
CANNES, France (February 19, 2001) – The Siemens Information and Communications Mobile Group announced at the Cannes 3GSM World Congress that it has selected the Symbian platform to power its next generation of smartphones. The mobile phone giant, which recently became the second largest manufacturer in Europe, chose the software platform from Symbian to meet the requirements of Siemens’ future smartphone customers.
Symbian, which supplies a software platform for next-generation mobile phones is working with leading mobile phone manufacturers to address the emerging demand for smartphones which combine voice communications, wireless Internet access and computing functionality.
“This agreement between Symbian and Siemens is very exciting news for our customers,” said Peter Zapf, President Mobile Phones: “The Symbian platform allows us to continue the development of our smartphone portfolio, not only to business users, but to all mobile phone consumers that want the world’s best mobile business and entertainment features on their handsets.”
“We are delighted to welcome Siemens as the latest licensee of the Symbian platform. Siemens is internationally recognised as a leading player in the mobile phone industry and has a wealth of consumer experience and marketing knowledge which will be of great value to this partnership,” said Colly Myers, CEO, Symbian. “This announcement further emphasises the widespread success of the Symbian platform as the standard that’s powering the next generation of mobile phones.”
– ENDS –

Gruss

Z.

[EinAgent]

188,50 BPC entsprechen 2,97 Euro, warum ist hier ein so hoher Aufschlag ? Ich wollte am Freitag schon zukaufen, hab heute nochmal eine Order reingesetzt, allerdings zu 2,98.
Naja, ist ja noch Zeit bis Börsenschluß...

[hardy01]

Friday February 23 9:34 AM ET
Nokia Bullish on Mobile Web Phones, Symbian

By Paul de Bendern

CANNES, France (Reuters) - Nokia, the world`s largest handset maker,
shrugged off gloom-and-doom predictions and stuck by its vision that
high-speed mobile Web, or GPRS, devices will be a mass market product
from the fourth quarter.

``The mass market starts in the fourth quarter, when we can ship millions of
(GPRS) phones a month,`` Nokia Mobile Phones Executive Vice President
Anssi Vanjoki told Reuters in an interview.

He also said software from British Psion (PON.L)-owned Symbian, which is
working with seven different companies to make smart phones, would be the
winning formula for consumers.

The mobile phone industry, both operators and manufacturers, are under
intense pressure to deliver on promises that the high-speed mobile Internet
will be in peoples` pockets soon -- especially as the industry is investing well
over $200 billion in networks that will enable fast wireless Internet.

``We`re at the tuning stage of GPRS (general packet radio system) networks
now,`` Vanjoki, a member of Nokia`s executive board, said at the GSM
World Congress in Cannes.

He expects to sell the first GPRS mobile phones by the end of September
and start large-volume shipments by the end of the year.

The U.S.`s Motorola Inc (NYSE:MOT - news), the world`s second largest
cellular phone maker, is currently the only company selling a phone based on
the new GPRS transmission standard, which aims to allow `always-on`
Internet access in Europe.

Motorola warned on Friday that a sharp drop-off in orders in a number of its
businesses could lead to a first-quarter loss. Its shares fell nearly 9 percent in
pre-market trading.

Shares of Nokia, fragile after market talk on Thursday that it might deliver a
profit scare itself, were down about 6.4 percent to 23.80 euros at
GMT1356.

Nokia, which sold almost 130 million handsets last year, is holding back on
introducing GPRS models to allow mobile operators to build enough
high-speed capacity in their networks for the new phones to deliver a
qualitatively better experience for consumers.

``We don`t want to disappoint people,`` Vanjoki said.

Symbian Is Winning Formula

Vanjoki said Symbian, where Nokia and rival Ericsson (LMEb.ST) of
Sweden are major shareholders, is the right software for mobile
communication devices.

``It`s more or less game over (for the rest),`` he said. ``Symbian has (almost)
70 percent market share.``

But Symbian has come under increasing pressure, with recent market signals
that it may be losing its edge, especially after Motorola`s decision to pull out
of a handheld product development agreement with Symbian`s parent Psion
(PON.L).

``There`s no alternative to Symbian,`` Vanjoki said. ``We feel very confident
about Symbian.``

He said he had not gotten any signals from Symbian developers that the
wireless future they saw was changing and that they would not proceed as
planned.

``We haven`t got all our eggs there (in Symbian), but it`s an important egg,``
Vanjoki said.

Symbian is producing software for the top five mobile phone makers, which
make 65 percent of the world`s mobile phones -- Nokia, Motorola, Ericsson,
Germany`s Siemens (SIEGn.DE) and Japan`s Matsushita -- and its
shareholders include Nokia and some of its rivals.

Shrugs Off Threat From Computer Industry

Vanjoki said Nokia is not worried about computer makers or moves by rival
cellular phone companies to pair up with computer makers that sell handheld
computers, or so-called personal digital assistants (PDAs).

U.S. computer maker Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HWP - news) is teaming
with a cellphone maker, and Siemens, which makes mobile phones, is
working with Japanese computer company Casio (6952.T).

Most cellphone makers know very little about computer technology. Nokia,
Ericsson and Motorola are well-known consumer brands in one product
group only: cellphones.

Vanjoki said that while the PDA market is profitable, it is a niche in a much
bigger market. The overall consumer market is what Nokia is good at handling, he said.

``We understand the needs of the consumers, and we`re catering for that,`` he said.

Vanjoki said, furthermore, companies that own mobile technology will have an edge.

``PDA software is a piece of cake compared to the wireless technology we (mobile phone makers) work
with,`` he said.

Vanjoki said Nokia -- which is also expected to sell a niche market mobile device that operates using software
from U.S. Palm Inc. (NasdaqNM:PALM - news) -- had Symbian and its in-house software developers to
ensure it kept ahead of the game.

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