Symbian (Motorola European PDA consortium) information
Symbian's next model will contain an IBM PowerPC and IBM mini disk .
FYI if AAPL ever enters this market ;>):
" Psion is the largest shareholder in Symbian, which partners Motorola of the U.S., Sweden's
Ericsson, Nokia of Finland and Japan's Matsushita Communication Industrial Co.
Symbian is building products around Psion's EPOC operating system for the next generation of
smart cellphones and palm-top computers with Internet access.
Psion said the alliance was ''progressing well'' and was expected to move into monthly profit toward
end-2001, in line with analyst expectations. Symbian is developing EPOC across a range of wireless
devices and will launch its latest version, ER6, in the second quarter of 2000 with volume sales
following.
Despite reports that Microsoft has approached Psion's Symbian partners to woo them away from
Psion, Chief Executive David Levin told a conference call he was confident they would continue to
develop products around Symbian software.
''We know that Microsoft will continue to talk to them,'' he said. But he also held out the prospect
of possible future cooperation with the U.S. software giant.
''Microsoft is an interesting company and we'd be delighted to achieve some sort of cooperation
with them if that were the right thing. But at this point I wouldn't anticipate it,'' he added. Psion,
which warned in March that investments in Symbian would take a 6.0 million to 7.0 million pound
bite out of 1999 earnings, said it was happy with analyst forecasts of annual profits of tax before
one-time items of around 5.0 million pounds. "
dailynews.yahoo.com
Microsoft wooing them ? Trying to make SJ & Handspring jealous ?
Jim K. |
