Hot; Now Symbian will Become to Open Source

You certainly are familiar with the Symbian operating? Yes, this operating system is widely used in mobile phones. Especially Nokia.

There are some rumors about the fate of Symbian, but now the operating system has now entered a new phase of existence, which transform into an open source operating system. This move began in June 2008, when Nokia bought Symbian and created the Symbian Foundation to take over the development of operating systems. And the Symbian Foundation were proved to have a big plan to be realized in the future.

Symbian operating system is quite popular and widely used in smartphones. At least last year there were 330 million units of Symbian-based products have been marketed. Symbian Foundation claims that the biggest transition is the operating system is transformed into an open source and believe that the future of this operating system will evolve even faster. The fact that there has indeed been shown by the open source operating systems such as the iPhone OS and Android OS that was suddenly much used by the handset, the latest handset.

Symbian Foundation consist of Nokia, LG, Motorola, NTT DoCoMo, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, operators Vodafone and AT & T and chipmakers Texas Instruments. Nokia has become the main developer of the Symbian operating system, but the producers plan to reduce the application of Symbian on its products less than 50 percent in mid-2011 later.

This course will provide greater space for everyone. Even the source code is now available to anyone. In fact the source code can already be downloaded from the official website Symbian Foundation. Platform covering its operating system was also developed by each member of the Symbian Foundation, including the user interface display. It is expected that third parties will be developing more Symbian-based applications more quickly and are not hindered by the license of Symbian’s own. Also expected later security level will be even better.

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