The two largest open-source mobile platform initiatives are swirling up rumors that they’ll be joining forces to combine the Symbian and Android platforms spearheaded by Nokia and Google, respectively. Allegedly informed analysts at J. Gold Associates are claiming that a merger between Nokia and...
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07-26-2008
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As smaller competitors in an growing open-source mobile OS market, LiMo Foundation and LiPS (Linux Phone Standards) Forum members are in for a serious battle for open-source marketshare. With Nokia buying out Symbian to essentially seed the open-source Symbian mobile platform, and the OHA backing Google's...
Kai Öistämö, Nokia’s head of devices, said during a press conference in London that the first Symbian Foundationsymbian powered devices will come in in 2010 at the earliest.
Developers apparently can start working on the new open-source platform immediately, since according to Öistämö, “applications...
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This was quite unexpected, but Nokia together with AT&T, LG Electronics, Motorola, NTT DOCOMO, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and Vodafone are going to build the Symbian Foundation, and will dedicate their time and efforts to open source mobile technology.
At the same...
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Filed under: Apple, iPhone, Nokia, Symbian, s60, Google, Software, uiq, wireless, android, moap, Software&Services, mobile platform, symbian foundation