Windows Mobile, Linux Putting Squeeze on Symbian

Submitted by tuxtops on Thu, 02/09/2006 - 19:19

Perhaps the time is right for Symbian to start aggressively marketing its wares down a market segment, as it said it would when it announced a 3G reference design for the mid-tier market yesterday; because the tide is slowly turning against the platform developer, according to a new report by market research firm The Diffusion Group. It predicts the battle between mobile OS vendors will intensify with market-leader Symbian gradually losing share to both Microsoft's Windows Mobile and Linux.