Telecommunication Technology and Mobile Gadgets

Although popularity of smartphones in the world increased, so far Nokia not interested in using Google’s Android platform made in the development of mobile products. Chris Carr, Vice President Sales Southeast Asia Pacific (SEAP) Nokia said in an interview Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday (2/23/2010) afternoon.

“There is no option to use Android right now,” said Chris Carr, shaking his head when asked about the possibility. He also said, Nokia does not feel threatened by the rising popularity of Android because for overall market share is still small.

Carr is optimistic with Nokia smartphone which has market share 40 percent. According to him, the future development of Symbian remain reliable in the increasingly tight competition. He said the Symbian version 3.0 which is the newest platform has much better capability than its predecessor.

“Symbian 3.0 will soon come with very large capacity,” said Carr. In a video presented on Monday (2/22/2010) night, Carr had a chance to show the main features of the Symbian 3.0. In the video can be seen that Symbian 3.0 has multitasking capabilities, improved graphics, faster access to the widget-based content, including magnification with a pinch to zoom.

On the other hand, Siemens is more interested in using Linux. Recently, in the event Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain, Nokia and Intel have agreed to integrate the development of Linux-based platform that previously developed individual, namely Intel and Nokia Maemo Moblin, became MeeGo.

He said the next MeeGo will become a platform for computing products, Siemens, including tablets and netbooks. While Symbian will be focused on the development of smartphones. Nokia still has one more platform that the S series will be used for other product classes.