Stephen Withers
Tuesday, 24 June 2008 14:15
Your IT -
Mobility
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Nokia and its friends are circling the wagons in the face of Google's Android mobile phone platform and the massive level of interest being shown in Apple's iPhone as it gains greater international distribution. Big changes are afoot in the Symbian world.
Central to the plan is the unification of Symbian, S60, UIQ and MOAP(S) into a single open mobile software platform.
Nokia intends to take 100 percent ownership of Symbian, and then contribute the existing Symbian and S60 software to the Symbian Foundation.
Similarly, Sony Ericsson and Motorola will contribute technology from UIQ, while DoCoMo intends to chip in MOAP(S).
Stir well, and the result will be a unified platform with a common user interface across multiple vendors' handsets and devices.
"Ten years ago, Symbian was established by far sighted players to offer an advanced open operating system and software skills to the whole mobile industry", said Nigel Clifford, CEO of Symbian.
"Our vision is to become the most widely used software platform on the planet and indeed today Symbian OS leads its market by any measure."
How many Symbian phones are there, and who else is joining the Foundation? See
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