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Originally Posted by Timothy Rapson
But, they have not kept people in Europe from buying Nokia Symbians. If Symbian could only make enough money off of these to get Quartz back up and running.
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TBH at the moment it is a totally bogus comparison. None of the Symbian OEMs have managed to actually produce a PDA worth discussing as yet. The closest has been the 9210 but you don't see them flying of shelves.
The Palm OS is only represented (in the uk at least) by the Handspring Treo with the vast empahsis on the PDA marketplace.
From the MS arena no smartphones and only the XDA as phone edition (and only available on one of four networks)
It too early to draw any real conclusions with regard to the Symbian/MS debate apart from the obvious that Symbian is kicking ass due to the lead time. This is due to their OEM's and has very little to do with the fact their running EPOC. The Symbian coalition has been together for at least of a couple of years and we have seen the 9210, the 7650 and the vaporware P800. If MS can really get a good market share for smartphones it may well be as much to do with Symbian's OEMs inablity to get product to market as much as anything to do with what MS does.
Timothy - Symbian's money has got little to do with the lack of quartz devices. More correctly Psion's money has something to do with it, however the model that they were producing with Motorola, 'ODIN' was a pearl smartphone not a quartz device.
If any of the Symbian OEM's choose to produce a quartz device then things may get more interesting. We saw a couple of years ago an interesting Quartz concept from Ericsson but it certainly doesn't appear to have got any closer to market. The P800 is another Pearl device.
The most interesting figures here are a straight comparison of the Palm to PPC device market shares which makes very good reading if you work for MS.