Symbian Foundation has declared that its popular Symbian operating system for mobile phones has been thrown open for people. This means that any individual or organisation can modify the code for the legendry OS, which powers more than 300 million devices.
The foundation firmly believes the move will bring new developers to work on their system and help speed up the pace of evolution and improvement of the OS.
Earlier in 2008,the Finnish mobile phone giant Nokia bought the software and assisted establishment of the non-profit Symbian Foundation to oversee its development. That is a different thing that since then , Symbian has had its bad days from the iPhone and now Android OS.
The foundation includes Nokia, AT&T, LG, Motorola, NTT Docomo, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and Vodafone. Nokia,SE,NTT and TI happen to be the founding members of the foundation,though the leader in it is Nokia, whose almost whole of the smartphones(except the new N810,900 and so forth which run on Nokia's own Maemo OS) work on it. Sony Ericsson's P-series of smartphones also happen to run the smart OS.
It can be downloaded from the foundation's website.
What the company says is that one of the motivations for the move was to speed up the rate at which the 10-year-old platform evolved(which nearly gave the same boring interface - the reason for its lagging behing iPhone and Android OS). Despite being the world's most popular smart phone operating system, Symbian has been losing the publicity battle, with Google's Android operating system and Apple's iPhone dominating recent headlines.
However,the foundation, says that it would monitor phones using the platform to ensure that they met with minimum standards. Thats good when coming to terms that S60 has been the world leader in smartphone platform.
Being a Symbian fan, it does excite me! The experience and powererfullness of Symbian has been miles ahead for me(infact, the S60 3rd edition stll seems much better than the iPhone OS).
What do you think, will it work wonders for Symbian?? Feel free to comment
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