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To: the hube who wrote (31484)	9/14/2000 4:17:48 AM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

John, Symbian's technology is based on GSM. Got any idea how it will fare if the world switches over to CDMA? Is this just a simple rewrite for them, or a major discontinuity? biz.yahoo.com One of the great merits of Symbian is that its technology is based on the GSM mobile telecom standard common to both Europe and Japan (and therefore the rest of Asia) giving it a potentially massive market. Symbian-powered products will start hitting the stores later this year including --you guessed it -- a Palm look-alike with a built in mobile phone. The article suggests that Nokia and Sony see Palm as a possible alternative to Symbian. Sony recently started using VxWorks for some products, and Palm is now using WIND's TCP/IP networking stack, so perhaps that's a foot in the door... Even Psion's partners in Symbian are hedging their bets. Nokia has a licensing deal with Palm, Ericsson has a deal with Microsoft, and Sony (NYSE:SNE - news) -- one of Symbian's major customers -- also uses Palm technology. There will be plenty of jockeying before the winners emerge.