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gigaom.com - 10/24/2009
Symbian Executives Rips into Google’s Android [GigaOM]
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It was right after our Mobilize 09 conference it became clear that 2010 was going to be the year of Android , thanks to a growing number of Android-powered handsets from makers such as Motorola and Samsung. Some analysts are forecasting that by 2012 it would be the second most popular ...
Android 2.0 Official Video
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Android 2.0 Official Video
— youtube.com — Highlights from the latest Android platform release (more) Android 2.0 Official Video

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Announcing Android 2.0 support in the SDK!
android-developers.blogspot.com - 10/27/2009
Announcing Android 2.0 support in the SDK!
— android-developers.blogspot.com — I am excited to announce that the Android SDK now supports Android 2.0 (also known as Eclair).... Android 2.0 brings new developer APIs for sync, Bluetooth, and a few other areas. Using the new sync, account manager and contacts APIs, you can write ... (more) Announcing Android 2.0 support in the SDK!

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HTC Working on Android 2.0 Phones
gearlog.com - 10/26/2009
HTC Working on Android 2.0 Phones
— gearlog.com — It looks like Motorola aren't the only people to get a taste of that yummy Eclair -... otherwise known as Android 2.0. The Android 2.0 software launch is going very oddly. Google hasn't announced the OS or SDK, but Verizon says the Motorola Droid will ... (more) HTC Working on Android 2.0 Phones

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IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis:  Video: Symbian CEO Lee Williams has balls the size of planet Mars

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Video: Symbian CEO Lee Williams has balls the size of planet Mars
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis — ... is coming up, Symbian’s yearly exposition. I went to the previous two, but I’m not going to attend the one this year. It’s more of a business to business event, and while it would be awesome to see my UK friends, I’m in bootstrapping mode for a project you’ll hear about in Q1 2010. That aside, the CEO of Symbian, Lee Williams, drops some quotes in his interview with Om Malik that make the edges of my lips curl slightly upwards to form a grin. You just have to hear the stuff that comes out of his mouth when he talks about Google ( ...

Linkpost | 10.24.2009
TechBlog — ... • Video: Symbian Executive Rips into Google's Android - Say, you think this guy might have, you know, an agenda ? Nah, couldn't be! • ...

Symbian is getting totally awesomely open
Unwired View — ... And then there was this short Lee Williams interview with Om Malik this weekend. I haven’t had this much fun watching company CEO interview in a long time: ...

‘Apple’s just greedy, Google is evil’, says Symbian boss
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence — Symbian CEO, Lee Williams, speaks with GigaOm’s Om Malik - and had some interesting observations on Google and Apple. Recent analysis forecasts that by 2012 Google Android will be the second most popular smartphone OS, behind Symbian, the operating system that powers most of Nokia’s high-end phones. According to Gartner, Android’s share will be at 18 percent of all smartphones sold globally in 2012, or about 94 million users out of 525 million. Apple seems set to be third, or fourth in the ...

CE-Oh no he didn't! Part XLV: Symbian's Lee Williams rips into Android, implies Google is evil (video)
Engadget Mobile — ... Strap yourselves in, folks, we're about to launch the Mudslinger 3000 again and figure out if any of it sticks. Lee Williams of Symbian starts off with a few attack volleys relating to Google's "fragmentation" of UI elements, and the resultant closed APIs being a ...

CE-Oh no he didn't! Part XLV: Symbian's Lee Williams rips into Android, implies Google is evil (video)
Engadget — ... Strap yourselves in, folks, we're about to launch the Mudslinger 3000 again and figure out if any of it sticks. Lee Williams of Symbian starts off with a few attack volleys relating to Google's "fragmentation" of UI elements, and the resultant closed APIs being a ...

Symbian: Android is Tracking You
dailywireless.org — Om Malik interviewed Lee Williams, executive director at Symbian. He talked about SEE09, their developer conference in London next week and shared his unfiltered views of Google’s Android. ...

Symbian Dev program tries to limit fragmentation
Betanews — ... Though Symbian Foundation Executive Director Lee Williams publicly deemed Google's approach to spreading Android the "perfect storm of fragmentation," yesterday the Foundation launched the beta of its developer program for what looks to be a pretty fragmented app store architecture in its own right. ...

Android team updates 'Donut' and 'Eclair' SDKs
Betanews — ... There has been no official word about which existent Android devices will be able to upgrade to 2.0, and today, we begin to see a bit more of that dreaded Android fragmentation as both versions got updates to their SDK components. ...

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