[News] Sendo junks MS smartphone | ANN.lu |
Posted on 07-Nov-2002 12:12 GMT by Tor Anders Johansen | 60 comments View flat View list |
The Register says that Sendo junks MS smartphone and joins Nokia camp. Sendo, the UK handset maker was supposed to launch its Z100 MS 'Stinger' handset this month into Spain and Italy. Sendo today announced that it's stopping all development on the Windows for Smartphone 2002 platform. It is instead signing a licence for Series 60, the Nokia smartphone platform erected upon the Symbian OS. I guess this means no Amiga Anywhere for Sendo phones.
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Sendo junks MS smartphone : Comment 13 of 60 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Troels E on 07-Nov-2002 12:40 GMT | In reply to Comment 11 (priest): "Reasoning why M$ smartphone was easier target to get AACE on:
- M$ got nothing to loose on the mobile sector, only things to gain
- Nokia is the leader mobile phones, they've got a lot of things to loose, so they take less risks with untested technology"
Sorry Priest but thats not true.
M$ have worked on this in a long time they have teamed up with retail channels and phone companies, they have a huge investment and their good reputation (outside the Amiga comm. :-) to loose.
Nokia is _still_ the leader but the next couple of years will probably tell us is that continues, i'm not so sure anymore.
About taking risks with untested technology: If Nokia choose to distribute Amiga content they would offcourse test it properly before it gets released, any big company does that.
If they don't want to distribute it (they have a deal with Sega..) they cant stop Amiga from selling gamepaks for their devices, but in that case Nokia doesn't earn anything and can't test it. |
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