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The BBC reports that Symbian dismisses the “gPhone” or Android as it’s now been dubbed, by the looks of it the BBC have snubbed the new “Open Handset Alliance” as theres no 100% dedication to the plaform, which is hard to expect when not even a demo version of the OS and hardware has rolled off production lines.
Looking at the members list, it seems that Symbian have got something to worry about. While Nokia and Sony Erricsson are about 60% of the mobile market and both Symbian customers it seems the rest, Motorola, HTC, LG, and Samsung have took the jump to join this group in its early stages. Also, alot of the big carriers are behind them, NTT DoCoMo, T-Mobile, and Telefonica.
Google has used their corporate might to pull in a few “big boys” from the industry, once a prototype is out and interest starts brewing i’d expect a few more to join in.
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In another news of an unrelated nature, I’ve finally got my arse in gear and decided to get back on the GTD horse. My recent exploits with Gmail and various other Google Apps have spurred me on, my success in organising my mail and rss feeds means I can spend more time on actual stuff…
I’ve previously mentioned Tracks as my central repository for all things GTD related, but the other day I bumped into What’s Next?, which is a boiled down version of Tracks that supports the pure basics of GTD. Running on Rails and SQLite its nice and portable, but I’ve slapped it onto my hosting box at home to avoid the hassle of Ruby instances on a USB drive. Really, I can’t comment on the usage of this new app, but i’m sure i’ll have more details in a few weeks.
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