Symbian OS Goes Open

4. February 2010 | 10:49

Symbian OS goes open source four months early

Entire Symbian platform now offered to developers. The Symbian Foundation is to offer the full Symbian smartphone platform to open source. (News Source: TechWorld - 08:25:11)

Symbian OS Goes Open-Source

On Wednesday, the foundation overseeing the world’s most popular smartphone OS, Symbian, announced that it had made the operating system entirely open source. (News Source: PC Magazine - 00:17:52)

Symbian OS goes open source, takes on Android

Mobile phone software war gets interesting Symbian has made its entire code base open source. The move makes its mobile phone operating system available to all, four months in advance of Symbian’s mooted June deadline. (News Source: PC Advisor - 09:29:05)

Symbian OS Goes Open Source

As of today, anyone can download and use the source code of Symbian 3 (the successor of previous Symbian versions, S60, S40 and others). Nokia had acquired Symbian back in 2008, turned the consortium that makes the software into the Symbian foundation, and has now decided to make it available to all phone manufacturers. The source code is published under the Eclipse Public License (EPL … (News Source: Mashable - 09:36:51)

Symbian Goes Fully Open Source On Thursday

Starting tomorrow (Thursday), the source code behind the Symbian operating system will go 100% open source and will be offered for free to Mobile OS friendly developers. Symbian powers a majority of the worlds cell phones and smartphones (approx. 330 million devices) and with the open source announcement due out tomorrow, the possibilities of new mobile […] (News Source: The Inquisitr - 04:31:40)