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The Register USA: Smartphones Talk Open Source

“Good news for third parties who want their PCs to talk to the
new generation of smartphones. The Nokia 7650 has banished the
ancient and much unloved Psion Link Protocol used by Symbian in
favor of a standard TCP/IP protocols, according to packet-sniffing
early adopters.

“It paves the way for third party Macintosh and Linux developers
to support Symbian-based phones, like the new Nokia and the
SonyEricsson P800. The PLP was Epoc’s (now SymbianOS)…”

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