[12.01.08] 2007 - the year in review
In
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I said the year
had been the
busiest ever
for Symbian.
Not surprisingly,
2007 now takes
that accolade.
There's been more
activity than ever
before and with
new versions of
UIQ and S60 on
the horizon, ever
increasing software
and service options
and more external
competition, I'm sure
that trend
will continue into 2008.
In 2007 here, on All About Symbian, we published more than 1,750 unique pieces of content, and had our busiest year ever with 27 million human visitors (just under 15 million unique - depending on how you count them). We published more than 50 pieces of multimedia content which were, in total, watched around 1.5 million times. Thanks to all our readers - we would not be here without you.
And now here's a look back at some highlights from the Symbian and Mobile world in 2007 as seen through AAS: January
January was one of the busiest months of the year. We started the year with Ewan's [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] - Sony Ericsson's first Walkman UIQ phone. It was the first Symbian phone to offer a large amount of internal flash memory - 4GB - setting something of a trend for later in the year. Meanwhile Steve was [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] and [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. At [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...], with [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...], announced two new Nseries smartphones, [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] - a tweaked version of the N93, and [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] - a slim flip phone in the vein of Motorola's popular RAZR line. Nokia also announced a collaboration with SixApart to allow you to b[Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] from your Nseries phone. Also at CES was the [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] . At the same time, Steve Jobs made something of a splash when he [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...], but [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] - regarding it as confirmation of their strategy. Steve thought the iPhone show a [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] to follow while Ewan was [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] as Jobs claimed. [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] proved to be one of the most popular of the year. The [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] charger arrived, which was a boon for travellers everywhere. [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] (PIPS is POSIX on Symbian) aimed at helping developers port applications more easily. In the middle of the month, Steve [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. DoCoMo [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] including the [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] (review later updated to 4.5 and then 5.0) and come away impressed. Steve also [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. Rafe offered the [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. To finish off the month we found out about [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...].
February
February was busy as ever, thanks to the usual run up to 3GSM and of course there was the event itself. At the beginning of the month, [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] heralding something of a resurgence for the UIQ software platform. Rafe offered up his [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] (which racked up 750,000 views in 2007). The [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] was suggested to be September though this date was never official. Ewan delivered his [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...], while Rafe [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] from the previous year. S60 announced the first [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] and Steve looked at the [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. Nokia announced the [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] (based on Smart2Go), a free mapping and navigation solution. [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. UIQ announced an [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. NTT DoCoMo, with its partners, [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...], including primary support for Symbian OS, on the SH Mobile G3 chipset. [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] as one of its preferred software platforms. [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] of its mobile browser. At 3GSM, with [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] in [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...], Motorola returned to the Symbian fold with its [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...], Rafe offered [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] of the attention grabbing phone and [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. Nokia announced the [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...], a DVB-H handset with moderate specifications. There was also the [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...], a slider phone with a focus on enterprise communication, but it also proved popular with consumers as a solidly built S60 phone. Also in the Eseries camp was the announcement of a tweaked E61, the [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. The biggest splash from Nokia was the announcement of the [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...][Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] reception. The mobile phone group of Nokia didn't want to be left out so [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...], a GPS equipped S60 phone that offered premium navigation features. Meanwhile LG [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. Symbian announced that it had [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...], taking the installed user based to 110 million. Sony Ericsson announced its intention to fully license UIQ to others and [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. Back from 3GSM, Rafe [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] (Steve [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]) before moving on to the [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] (with Ewan's assistance).
which received a March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
October kicked off with the announcement of [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] and news of [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. Symbian announced it would support [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] promising power savings. [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] was made available through Nokia Beta Labs and was swiftly followed by [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...], a navigation solution for smartphones. [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] service platform. [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. Just in time for the Symbian Smartphone Show, [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...], [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. The day before the show, Sony Ericsson and Motorola announced that [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. The big news on day one of the show was the[Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] and Samsung's public launch of the i450, [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. Other show news included [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...], [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...], [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...], new and cheaper offerings for [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...], [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...], news of a [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...], [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...], the [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...], and the release of [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. After the show, [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] and offered a [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] users. There were [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...], [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] via third party software and continuing [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]. At the end of the month, [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...] and [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...].
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