The most major news item in mobility yesterday seems to be the new release of
Symbian OS. The 9.0 version doesn't really include many new features that
affect the end user.
The USB mass storage feature will actually be pretty cool, but doesn't really
affect me all that much because I use Bluetooth to fling files over to my
phone. The 3D graphics are nice to see, lots of people are really
enthusiastic about the games market. But personally I'm more into the
location based and alternate reality games than high framerate 3D.
This release seems to concentrate a lot more on the capabilities meant for
network operators, and I agree with a lot of the sentiments expressed in an
article from TheFeature. There's been a lot of talk about the openness of
mobile platforms, the most recent bump in activity seeming to start around
Mobile and Open from Howard Rheingold (something I a... (more)