Symbian Foundation operating system code to reveal the most popular phone in the world, Symbian. Now, the Symbian operating system that is worth billions of U.S. dollars, was opened for free. Symbian Foundation is already planning this since last year, and now Symbian has truly become an open operating system, so that everyone can take advantage of the open code and modify the platform.

This step is taken to attract more developers are working in this ecosystem to help the development of the Symbian platform forward. “This is an open source effort to the largest migration ever occurred,” said Lee Williams of the Symbian Foundation, as quoted by the BBC website.

The problem, Williams claims there are more than 330 million Symbian-based phones are now circulating throughout the world. With his open source the Symbian, he hoped to be able to boost the increase innovation in this platform.

Not only that, this step is expected to strengthen again Symbian position, at the time of the pamornya sag, due to competition with Google’s Android and Apple iPhone.
“This step is very useful for Symbian, as Google has done very well with Androidnya,” said Forrester Research analyst quoted by the BBC.

Symbian Foundation itself consists of several parties, namely Alcatel, AT & T, LG, Motorola, NTT DoCoMo, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments, and Vodafone.
Williams says, SYmbina Foundation will continue to monitor the phones memanfaatk this platform to ensure they meet minimum standards.

Symbian development itself is still dominated by Nokia. But with the opening of this operating system code, Symbian foundation hopes, it will be increasingly reduced to a “no more than 50 percent” until mid-2011.

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