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Filed under: Software, Nokia, Samsung, Symbian

So it turns out that Nokia may have been just a little presumptuous in its June announcement that it was buying the entirety of Symbian in its effort to open-source it. The press release’s headline back then proudly proclaimed “Nokia to acquire Symbian Limited to enable evolution of the leading open mobile platform,” but in reality, Nokia had only gotten firm commitments representing 91 percent of Symbian’s outstanding shares in total at the time; Samsung hadn’t yet agreed to the sale. Espoo merely said at the time that it “expected” a deal to happen there — and at this time it finally has, giving Nokia the clean sweep it needs to make its Symbian Foundation dreams reality. It’ll still be a good while yet before we see Foundation hardware at retail, but at least these guys can go about their business at this time without a nagging feeling that Sammy could be the party buzzkill.

[Via Phone Scoop]

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Filed under: Handsets, Motorola, Verizon Wireless, EV-DO, CDMA

Far be it from Verizon to get left out of Motorola’s RAZR-ish evolution recently observed in Sprint’s VE20, the VU30 Rapture (no relation to the LG Vu — trust us) should be hitting Big Red next month according to the latest Dat. we’ve got on hand. The wait’s continuously excruciating, we know, but phoneArena’s picked up a few juicy bits of the user’s manual for us all to chew on in the meanwhile. Looking over the documentation, it really is striking to see just how much the VU30 shares in common with its Sprint contemporary: a touch-sensitive external display for music controls, 2-megapixel camera, EV-DO, and a curvy shape that somehow manages to evoke the RAZRs of old without prompting us to gouge our eyes out, for example.

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