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Symbian Foundation to be shut down soon ?

on October 26, 2010 – 3:42 am4 Comments

According to a report by Register , the Symbian Foundation might be shut down soon. The Symbian Foundation is a non-profit body which “provides ,manages and unifies the Symbian platform for download and development.” In short, the foundation acts as an enabler but does not develop the platform themselves.Since Nokia is the only major manufacturer to still support Symbian, the importance of this separate entity  seems to fade away. Samsung had recently quit the foundation and Sony Ericsson too has shelved it’s plans for a Symbian handset.

Symbian was initially formed by many mobile heavy weights including Nokia. Nokia then became a sole owner of Symbian after purchasing the stake from other partners. The Symbian Foundation open-sourced the project code to Members earlier this year.

The future of the Symbian Foundation and Symbian is certainly not clear as Nokia is cutting close 1800 jobs and trying to save costs. MeeGo is a 2011 affair.

Nokia also announced that it plans to combine Symbian^3 , ^4 efforts.

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  • Shah

    Symbian sucks coz they had ruled over when first nokia 6600 mobile was launched and the following N70,N73 …..Nokia 5800 etc.. are gonna go in dust ! Coz ANDROID the great is ruling the OS world .Thanx symbian RIP SYMBIAN RIP ! HEH HEH !

  • http://avthedemon.tumblr.com avthedemon

    i think nokia is confused misguided on what os to go along with..meego still not released..so who knows how is it..and now they r shutting the world no.1 os symbian..nokia is ignoring the large world market of medium range phones 4 the us market.also its not adopting android..which cud become the nokia’s shortcut 2 success in almost evry market

  • http://youngestcrown@gmail.com preetman

    what do u want to say.
    have u any proof for this news.
    u r saying like that u have already confirmed the news…

    • http://avthedemon.tumblr.com avthedemon

      this thing also appeared on engadget..so there must b sm base in it