Symbian has finally taken one step further (something we all believe it should have done years ago) and gone open source. The ten year old Symbian platform shall go entirely open source from today. Developers can download, modify and redistribute the Symbian source code from it’s website. It’s believed that the Symbian platform empowers around 330 million mobile devices across the globe.
Most of Nokia’s mobile phones are based on the Symbian platform. Nokia had recently acquired a major stake in Symbian and the process from proprietary to open source code began with the Symbian Foundation. Nokia seems to have realized the potential Google’s Android, which is based on Linux and is also open source, poses in the near future. Manufacturers like Motorola and HTC have already started showing love to Android and others plan to follow Android as well.
The question is, will Symbian be able to make mobile phone manufacturers switch from Android to Symbian?
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Tags: android, developers, firmware, htc, mobile platforms, motorola, nokia, open source, os, smartphones, symbian
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