p2pnet news Mobiles:- | Open Source:- Nokia says it’ll acquire the 52% of Symbian it doesn’t already own, and in a joint announcement, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola and NTT DOCOMO say they’ll unite the Symbian OS, S60, UIQ and MOAP(S), “to create one open mobile software platform”.

With AT&T, LG Electronics, Samsung Electronics, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and Vodafone, they say they’ll establish a non-profit Symbian Foundation with membership available to all.

“This initiative is supported by current shareholders and management of Symbian Limited, who have been actively involved in its development,” says the statement going on >>>

“Sony Ericsson and Motorola today announced their intention to contribute technology from UIQ and DOCOMO has also indicated its willingness to contribute its MOAP(S) assets. From these contributions, the Foundation will provide a unified platform with common UI framework.

“A full platform will be available for all Foundation members under a royalty-free license, from the Foundation’s first day of operations.

Contributions from Foundation members through open collaboration will be integrated to further enhance the platform. The Foundation will make selected components available as open source at launch. It will then work to establish the most complete mobile software offering available in open source. This will be made available over the next two years and is intended to be released under Eclipse Public License (EPL) 1.0.

The Foundation’s platform will build on the leading open mobile software platform, with more than 200 million phones, across 235 models, already shipped by multiple vendors and tens of thousands of third-party applications already available for Symbian OS-based devices.

“Ten years ago, Symbian was established by far sighted players to offer an advanced open operating system and software skills to the whole mobile industry”, says Symbian CEO Nigel Clifford.

“Our vision is to become the most widely used software platform on the planet …..”

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announcement - Mobile leaders to unify the Symbian software platform and set the future of mobile free, June 24, 2008

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