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SONY ERICSSON P800 This silver-and-blue gizmo looks like a phone with a camera fused onto its backside, but the P800 packs a surprisingly decent PDA (using the Symbian operating system) under its lid as well. I admit I had my doubts at first. The cheap, plastic stylus and the miniature virtual keyboard that pops up onscreen do not immediately inspire confidence. But with a little practice, anyone with good eyesight and a steady hand can get used to writing with it. The PC software that Sony Ericsson includes for loading MP3s onto the phone never did work...
...software is expected to come later this month through Orange, the pan-European mobile firm owned by France Telecom. But most of the major handset manufacturers - including Nokia, Sony-Ericsson, Motorola, Matsushita (Panasonic) and Siemens - are all betting on an alternative system made by the London-based consortium Symbian. These manufacturers will want to convince consumers they can Web surf via phone without installing a mini-version of Windows. Assuming Opera's technology catches on, it could make big money. Earlier, cruder versions of Opera's mobile browser are currently bundled with Symbian's operating system. Opera gets...
...Quite a change from Christensen's early career, when he worked first at Britain's Psion, once a leading provider of handheld computing devices. Then he co-founded Symbian, a joint venture involving Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola, Matsushita and Psion, which still has a shot at being the dominant operating system for so-called smart phones...
...fact, he oversees Microsoft's mobile solution centers in Europe, North America, Japan and China. The stakes are huge: tech consultancy Ovum predicts that in five years 46% of the world's 1.95 billion cell phone owners will be using wireless data services. Microsoft is not only competing with Symbian in mobile operating systems, but also positioning itself against Finnish phone maker Nokia in "middleware," the software platforms that mobile phone operators will use (see No. 2, Jorma Ollila...
...about the operating system; there is a huge advantage to doing everything together," he says. "While Microsoft was once a no-go zone for me, now I think they are a great company with a great strategy." Symbian makes about $5 every time a smart phone is sold; Microsoft plans to make much more from taking a cut of the service business. Symbian still stands in Microsoft's way in dominating the mobile phone operating system, but it's unclear whether the company can take on Gates et al. In stealing Christensen, taking over one of the firm's principal...