Symbian will become an open platform?
Yesterday I read on Onliner.by that Nokia intends to acquire 52.1% of Symbian from its competitors - co-owners of this company (Ericsson, Sony Ericsson, Panasonic, Samsung and Siemens). In addition, Nokia announced the creation of the Symbian Foundation , the abolition of royalties for the right to use this OS and plans to turn Symbian into an open platform.
It is reported that Sony Ericsson, Ericsson, Panasonic and Siemens have already accepted the offer of Nokia. Samsung is still thinking. The purchase price will be approximately $ 410 million.
But that's not all - Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola and NTT DoCoMo have announced their intention to unify Symbian, S60, UIQ and MOAP (S) into one open software platform that will allow a whole generation of new converged devices to develop. It is this decision that underlies the Symbian Foundation, which will begin work in the first half of 2009.
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Anyone wishing to use the combined Symbian must join the organization and pay $ 1500 annually in the form of a fee, while they are exempt from payments to Symbian. For developers, membership in the Symbian Foundation is optional. Key members are already AT & T, Broadcom, NTT DoCoMo, Ericsson, Freescale, Fujitsu, LG, Motorola, Nokia, Orange, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Texas Instruments, T-Mobile, Vodafone.
The tendency to openness and unification of the platform based on Symbian - this is very cool! In addition to the obvious advantages, it turns out that there is a serious alternative to Windows Mobile. And healthy competition is always on hand to consumers - i.e. we are with you. I will try to keep you informed of the development of this situation.
It is reported that Sony Ericsson, Ericsson, Panasonic and Siemens have already accepted the offer of Nokia. Samsung is still thinking. The purchase price will be approximately $ 410 million.
But that's not all - Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola and NTT DoCoMo have announced their intention to unify Symbian, S60, UIQ and MOAP (S) into one open software platform that will allow a whole generation of new converged devices to develop. It is this decision that underlies the Symbian Foundation, which will begin work in the first half of 2009.
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Anyone wishing to use the combined Symbian must join the organization and pay $ 1500 annually in the form of a fee, while they are exempt from payments to Symbian. For developers, membership in the Symbian Foundation is optional. Key members are already AT & T, Broadcom, NTT DoCoMo, Ericsson, Freescale, Fujitsu, LG, Motorola, Nokia, Orange, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Texas Instruments, T-Mobile, Vodafone.
The tendency to openness and unification of the platform based on Symbian - this is very cool! In addition to the obvious advantages, it turns out that there is a serious alternative to Windows Mobile. And healthy competition is always on hand to consumers - i.e. we are with you. I will try to keep you informed of the development of this situation.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/27977/
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