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Last month we heard rumors that the Symbian Foundation might be closing up shop – giving the platform little to no hope of seeing life beyond the foreseeable future. Recently, we discovered SYMBEOSE, a consortium of companies devoted to enhancing the Symbian platform separate from the Symbian Foundation. It now appears that Nokia will also keep its firm commitment to the world popular platform and continue to enhance it.
Indeed, it seems the platform will carry on beyond the Foundation’s reach. Jo Harlow, Senior Vice President, Smartphones, Nokia says, “The future of Symbian as a platform does not depend on the existence of the foundation.”
And while Nokia continues to develop and perfect MeeGo for release, its decision to use focus on the Qt app development system may greatly improve the ecosystem – and hence the end product – for future versions of Symbian.
For more details, see the official press release on the following page.
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Marc Flores
Marc has been a mobile fanatic for the better part of a decade and has had more devices pass through his hands than he would care to count. Originally from Los Angeles and briefly in San Francisco, Marc now lives in Brooklyn where, unlike Will Park, he longs for simpler times and simpler technology. All the while, he writes about gadgets and wireless technology as he tinkers, hacks and ultimately breaks most of his gadgets in the process. Marc has written about the mobile industry for Boy Genius Report, MobileCrunch, Laptop Magazine and has had his work appear in the Wall Street Journal, Gizmodo, CrunchGear and more.
