Nokia : Symbian OS Platform To Go Open Source Today

Feb 4, 2010 by Shahbaaz

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symbian-foundation-heart Nokia is moving with the current of the tide and is all set up to get Nokia’s one of the most trusted and long-lived OS as open source.

With major mobile phone companies deploying open source platforms in their mobile phones, Nokia too has decided to set the sails with the wind flow and swerve it’s existence from proprietary code to an open source platform.

With Nokia being one of the most trusted and capable smartphone brands, the launch of Symbian Open source will only bolster the bricks of unaltered potential that lies within the Symbian OS.

For over 10 years, Nokia had been possessive about its Symbian platform which is one of the most dominating mobile software platforms, globally induced in about 330 million devices.

But, with the evolution of different revolutionary platforms like the iPhone OS or Google Android, Nokia has experienced an uninvited decline in the number of people who opted for Nokia phones.

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Symbian : Nokia’s Open Source Platform

And why not, as major mobile phone brands, in a way, bypassed Nokia’s Symbian OS to employ more young and dynamic mobile operating platforms.

To meet the need of the day, open sourcing Symbian is seemingly Nokia’s only best way to bolster its hold in the smartphone market and is the largest strategic move in the software history.

“The dominant operating system provider out there is Symbian,” says Lee Williams, executive director of the Symbian Foundation, “and now we are offering developers the ability to do so much more.”

Nokia Symbian Foundation will take charge to distribute the Symbian platform source codes as open source projects and therefore inviting innovations from open source developers to power Nokia’s handsets in a way like no other.

“Open source is also about open governance,” says Williams. “It’s about letting someone other than one control point guide the feature set and the asset base.” Also, Symbian open source roadmap for up to 2011 is all set to be released before Google does the same for Android.

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