Another 14 companies, including Bank of America, Hewlett-Packard, MySpace and Qualcomm, have lent their support to plans to turn Symbian into an open-source, mobile operating system. The system now has more support than Google’s mobile software competitor Android.
The Symbian Foundation, created by Nokia when it bought the operating system last year, has lost ground to Apple, Research In Motion and newcomers in the last 12 months. Nokia intends to take the operating system open source under the Eclipse Public Licence.
The new additions to the foundation bring Symbian’s support up to 78 members, including heavyweights such as LG Electronics, Vodafone and Samsung.
?Every single member of our community has a chance to influence the way we evolve and develop our offering," says Lee Williams, executive director of the Symbian Foundation.
Each company involved hopes to benefit differently from the project. Sandisk hopes to advance its storage options while MySpace and Bank of America want to advance their mobile software.
StrategyEye's related categories: Software Interfaces - Mobile, Mobile Device Applications, Social Networks - Consumer
StrategyEye's related companies: Symbian, LG Electronics, Bank of America Corporation, Vodafone Group Plc, HP, SAMSUNG, QUALCOMM, Nokia, MySpace
