Spotify announced yesterday that is has added support for Symbian smartphones. Symbian is used by Nokia, SonyEricsson and Samsung. This has been a long awaited release as Symbian is still the most widespread phone OS around, thus dramatically increasing the potential for new Spotify users. While being a nice update and all, there might be something else in the makes regarding these application platforms. While many companies port their software to multiple platforms, not many are able to take advantage of them to the extent Spotify does. Earlier this month Spotify announced that it has signed a deal with 3 UK to distribute HTC phones with Spotify premium included. This may be the route Spotify is more eagerly going to take in the near future regarding other operators in Europe as well.
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Pikkoo Lauches Interactive Mobile Screensavers And Wallpapers
Pikkoo, a Finnish startup focusing on social, user generated and interactive mobile content for Flash Lite and non-Flash Lite phones, has launched its public beta.
By utilizing Adobe Flash Lite and its own proprietary technologies, Pikkoo makes personalization and interaction possible for a very wide set of mobile devices. This includes not only S60 phones, Series 40 or iPhone but practically majority of the phones, since with Pikkoo’s proprietary technology it’s possible to generate compatible content, which enables Pikkoo to support majority of mobile handsets that currently exist.
Nokia’s Smartphone Roadmap Leaked?
Seems that Engadget Mobile got its hands on at least a partial roadmap or a list of S60 prototype devices available within Nokia or for the third-party developers. Roadmap starting from 2007 through 2009 lists product codes and codenames, operating system versions, prototype availability, development status and some of the actual features.
For example, list includes a upcoming Qwerty-slider model for AT&T and model with a 3 inch sized VGA display. See the full list.
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