Finland-based Nokia, the world's largest handset maker, has paid 264m euros to buy out UK-based Symbian, to advance its mobile internet innovation strategy. Symbian was founded in 1998 by Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia and Psion. Nokia's S60 range of mobiles are built on Symbian OS.
More than 200 million Symbian-OS phones have been shipped in the 10 years of the company's operation.
Nokia has also taken over Norwegian company TrollTech this year, who supply the GUI toolkit for Motorola's Linux phones. Following the announcement, Motorola will be switching over to GTK, although no final date has been announced. Motorola are part of Limo foundation.
Nokia is looking to secure lead-time in innovation over Google's Android strategy. Android SDK allows developers to use Java on Linux to build applications for the Android mobile software stack. Google also have an Eclipse plug-in for Android development and Python build tools.
To read about mobile Linux innovation from a more techie perspective read linuxdevices.com.
No comments:
Post a Comment