[Everything Goes]

While ive never owned a Symbian phone many on here will have. This book looks to prove intriguing for all smartphone owners.


David Wood, one of the founder executives of Symbian - and the one who saw it through to the bitter end - has written a book. A very big book.

Smartphones and beyond: Lessons from the remarkable rise and fall of Symbian tells the entire story from Symbian's conception, to world domination, to its rapid demise, and it must be one of the most candid and revealing books a technology executive has ever written.

It's currently No.1 in Amazon's mobile and wireless section.

Of course, it's popularly considered to be a story of failure. Although Symbian was in hundreds of millions phones, and for years powered the most-bleeding edge mobile tech, Android today is everything Symbian set out to be: creating a rich platform for modern smartphones and tablets, on which other industries built their services. And that's what makes this story interesting - much more interesting than if it had been a roaring success. The mobile industry today is defined by what Symbian wasn't - or by what it failed to do well.


http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/09..._wrars/?page=1

[Aye Up]

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Originally Posted by Everything Goes

While ive never owned a Symbian phone many on here will have. This book looks to prove intriguing for all smartphone owners.


David Wood, one of the founder executives of Symbian - and the one who saw it through to the bitter end - has written a book. A very big book.

Smartphones and beyond: Lessons from the remarkable rise and fall of Symbian tells the entire story from Symbian's conception, to world domination, to its rapid demise, and it must be one of the most candid and revealing books a technology executive has ever written.

It's currently No.1 in Amazon's mobile and wireless section.

Of course, it's popularly considered to be a story of failure. Although Symbian was in hundreds of millions phones, and for years powered the most-bleeding edge mobile tech, Android today is everything Symbian set out to be: creating a rich platform for modern smartphones and tablets, on which other industries built their services. And that's what makes this story interesting - much more interesting than if it had been a roaring success. The mobile industry today is defined by what Symbian wasn't - or by what it failed to do well.


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Symbian had the one thing that all modern OS would kill for, excellent power management. I have seen touch screen Symbian devices last days compared to brevity offered by Android/Windows/iOS. I think everyone can agree by and large symbian devices had amongst the best battery life in the business equal to that of Blackberry from yesteryear.

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Originally Posted by Aye Up

Symbian had the one thing that all modern OS would kill for, excellent power management. I have seen touch screen Symbian devices last days compared to brevity offered by Android/Windows/iOS. I think everyone can agree by and large symbian devices had amongst the best battery life in the business equal to that of Blackberry from yesteryear.

Even with old hardware my 808 still has better battery life than any of my other phones (1020 and a 4S), and it is just as responsive - it was Nokias internal politics that stopped them from putting Symbian on Cortex processors (which SE and Samsung did in their last efforts on Symbian).

Always knew Nokia were an absolute management debacle. They released some good products despite their management being a clueless bunch of imbeciles.