Posts Tagged ‘symbian’

ZDNet: Android and Symbian won’t merge

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

Dana Blankenhorn comments on the recent rumours of Google’s Android and Nokia’s Symbian joining forces.

He’s betting heavily against that eventuality, and with good reason. To me, at least it seems unlikely that the two will find their way together. I’m not even sure whether it would be reasonably possible to combine both code bases, they are rather different platforms, after all.

And on a personal note to Mr. Blankenhorn, if Google were to give up Android, it could “push” the code to the Finns, not the Swedes.

ZDNet

LiPS joins Forces with LiMo Foundation

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) is joining forces with the LiMo Foundation.  This follows announcements by many LiPS Forum members that they are joining the LiMo Foundation.

The LiMo Foundation is an industry association dedicated to creating the first open, hardware-independent, Linux-based OS for mobile devices.  The Limo Foundation is competing against Google’s Android and Nokia’s Symbian.

I4U News [via Engadget]

Nokia to open up Symbian

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

Nokia announced to day that it is buying the remaining share of Symbian Limited that it doesn’t yet control for about 264 million euros.  Nokia plans to turn Symbian over to to a newly created Symbian Foundation.  Other members of the foundation include Ericsson, Motorola and NTT DoCoMo.

The foundation is commited to moving Symbian to the open source realm within two years and plans to use the Eclipse Public License.

Press Releases:

[via Engadget]


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