Nokia and Skype announced a provision of voice services Skype IP-telephony in all Nokia phones running Symbian ^ 1, and the Nokia N900. The service will work on 3G, Wi-Fi or even GPRS / EDGE.

In addition, Skype reported that soon enjoy the most popular VOIP-client can be on Symbian-phones from other manufacturers such as Sony Ericsson.

Skype Client for Nokia phones will be sold in Ovi Store. As Nokia predicted that the first time, it will download about 1.5 million people a day.

Version of Skype for Symbian existed before, for example from Fring, but officially Nokia starts to support it for the first time.

Via TechRadar

Gartner summed up the results of the smartphone market in 2009. A positive outcome of this year has ended for Apple, Google and RIM. In absolute terms, leading RIM with 19,9% of the market, but Apple and Google was growing fast. Apple increased its market share from 8,2% (in 2008) to 14,4% (in 2009). Android most of 2008 was not shipped, but next year this OS gained 3.9% market share.

As usual, the growth of some means a fall for others. Share Symbian fell below 50% – to 46,9%. The positions of Windows Mobile weakened with 11,8% to 8,7%, and operating system from Microsoft took the fourth position in the ranking. The share of systems based on Linux has declined from 7,6% to 4,7%: this reflected the transition of many producers on Android.

Proportion Palm webOS still negligible – only 0.7%.

If we talk about the market of traditional phones, there is still a leader Nokia with 36.9%. However, a year ago, it was higher – 38,6%. Next come the Samsung and LG, and they were able to improve the position: up to 19,5% and 10,1% respectively.

Via Electronista

It has grown a generation of computer users who have never seen Windows 3.1. Yes, it was a very long time. But the spiral of history can not be changed: changing scenery and the action all the same. It is unlikely that programmers working on Win3.1 to think that their child will work on phones.

Actually, Windows 3.1 was able to run not on the phone (he spoke smartphone Nokia N95), but within DOSbox emulator for Symbian. Polish developer Marcin-PRV thought: «Why not?» – And found the old adult operating system into a powerful, but not masthead phone.

During the experiment DOSbox emulate processor class 80486 and did it with ease. Perhaps the phone can pull in, and Windows 95 as soon Marcin-PRV comes in its investigation and to do so. Windows 3.1 to work in graphical mode, 640×480, and because the phone screen more modest, there were unpleasant distortion.