Symbian wins two Queen’s Awards for Enterprise in the areas of Innovation and International Trade

Symbian Limited, the market leader in open operating systems for mobile phones, has received two Queen’s Awards for Enterprise in the fields of Innovation and International Trade.

The Queen’s Award for Enterprise in Innovation 2008 recognises Symbian as a leader in mobile technology. Innovation is at the heart of Symbian’s company values and is key to helping its customers - the world’s leading handset manufacturers - create the most compelling and differentiated mobile phones across all of their market segments. With over 220 different Symbian phone models shipped to date, Symbian has powered some of the most advanced mobile devices in the world since its inception in 1998. This award recognises the innovation and commitment to excellence of Symbian engineers and also that of its thriving ecosystem of thousands of developers.

Another new UIQ 3.3 Phone - Sony Ericsson BeiBei

I have already seen some pictures some days ago at USEB of a possible new Sony Ericsson UIQ 3.3 phone. Now some further pictures showing the proper device have occured and so the rumours about it seem to be worthy enough to be posted.

The new upcoming Sony Ericsson phone is the second one after “Paris” featuring the new UIQ 3.3 user interface as you can see on the pictures below.

Quickoffice Premier 6.0?

I think you all know the leading office software “Quickoffice” for Symbian S60 and UIQ phones and only application which has full Office 2007 support. “Quickoffice” is able to display and edit Word, Excel and Powerpoint files.

Now there is happening something really strange over at the official Quickoffice blog. There is a new uncategorized post with the topic “New Release! Quickoffice Premier 6.0” with a picture of v5.0.

Nokia Q1 2008 Results

Based on our preliminary market estimate, Nokia’s market share for the first quarter 2008 was 39%, compared with 36% in the first quarter 2007 and 40% in the fourth quarter 2007. Our year on year market share increase was driven primarily by our strong position in the fastest growing markets globally and by strong share gains in Latin America, Asia-Pacific, China and to a lesser extent in Europe. Our market share decreased significantly year on year in North America. Our market share in Middle East & Africa was approximately at the same level year on year. We had strong sequential market share gains in Latin America. Our market share decreased significantly sequentially in Middle East & Africa and North America and to a lesser extent in Europe and Asia-Pacific. Our market share in China was approximately at the same level sequentially.

Another Picture of the Sony Ericsson Paris

Hope you don’t get sick of new pictures but the traffic shows me you also like the interesting new UIQ 3.3 phone Sony Ericsson Paris.

I have already posted two pictures about the upcoming slider phone and also an article about Paris’ features. That’s why I don’t want to write more here, just enjoy the picture which is this time available in good quality.

Video: Skyfire in Motion

I have written numerous times (here and here) about the very promising browser “Skyfire” which should be a household name for most of you. In case you still haven’t heard about this promising application, I will explain in short words why “Skyfire” causes so much intention in the Symbian world.

Skyfire is a free, downloadable mobile web browser that makes browsing on your phone exactly like browsing on your PC. You can view wany content you like e.g. watch Flash videos on YouTube, view JAVA content,  listen to music and so on. “Skyfire” uses a server rendering engine which provides not only the possibility to view everything you like as I mentioned, but also very fast page rendering and unburdening the phone’s RAM.

Dolby Surround Sound on the N95 8GB at CTIA

I have already posted the press release about a cooperation with Symbian and Dolby to bring rich and vibrant surround sound from various types of mobile entertainment content, including music, movies, television, and games, to Symbian smartphones.

The new Dolby sound was already presented at CTIA Las Vegas at the Symbian booth. IntoMobile has been there and posted some interesting pictures and information about the new Dolby application running on an N95 8GB.

Quickoffice Starts 2008 Shipping on 8 New Symbian Devices, Releases Latest Product Upgrades

Quickoffice, Inc., the leading global provider of mobile office productivity software and services, today announced that Quickoffice Premier, the company’s award-winning application, is shipping on the latest mobile devices from leading phone manufacturers. These devices include the Nokia N96, N78, 6220 and 6210 Navigator, Sony Ericsson’s G700 and G900, the LG KT-610 and the Samsung SGH-G810.

Dolby Laboratories Brings Rich Audio Experiences to Symbian OS Smartphones

Dolby Laboratories, Inc. and Symbian Limited today confirmed that Dolby Laboratories has joined the Symbian Platinum Partner Program, offering Dolby® Mobile for Symbian OSTM. This new solution enables rich and vibrant surround sound from various types of mobile entertainment content, including music, movies, television, and games, to Symbian smartphone users around the world.

Advanced Mass Data Handling and Location based Services Technologies launched on Symbian OS

Symbian Limited, the market-leader in open operating system for smartphones, today announced Symbian SQL and an advanced Location Based Services (LBS) architecture – two new technologies that herald the next generation of mobile computing by offering dramatic enhancements in the vital areas of mass data handling and LBS.