Sixty phones
news and opinions about Nokia Series 60 Symbian phones and other high-priced Finnish trinkets
Monday, April 25, 2005
Barely a smartphone?
Today's NY Times has an article about Ya-Qin Zhang, the new head of Windows Mobile software which is interesting. He seems like exactly what the beast from Redmond needs in this space - brains + a commitment to quality and innovation. The proof will be in the results.
MS's competitors get mentioned in the piece: "Symbian, whose partners include Nokia and Sony Ericsson, had 80.7 percent of the smart phone software market in the third quarter of last year, compared with 8.4 percent for PalmSource and 7.3 percent for Microsoft, according to the market research firm Gartner Dataquest. (Most of Symbian's market share comes from the Nokia Series 60 phone, which is more phone than organizer.)"
More phone than organizer? Sounds like the writer, John Markoff, is buying Microsoft's spin on this one. ¶ 8:55 AM
MS's competitors get mentioned in the piece: "Symbian, whose partners include Nokia and Sony Ericsson, had 80.7 percent of the smart phone software market in the third quarter of last year, compared with 8.4 percent for PalmSource and 7.3 percent for Microsoft, according to the market research firm Gartner Dataquest. (Most of Symbian's market share comes from the Nokia Series 60 phone, which is more phone than organizer.)"
More phone than organizer? Sounds like the writer, John Markoff, is buying Microsoft's spin on this one. ¶ 8:55 AM
