The Symbian Foundation Grows Bigger

With Apple selling more and more iPhones, with Google making its official debut on the market these days and with RIM releasing better smartphones, it’s no wonder that the Symbian lovers of the known cell phone universe are gathering together under the Symbian Foundation. More and more interested companies are joining up so we should expect the future open-source Symbian OS to offer us lots of changes.

Over 50 companies are supporting Symbian right now. And it all started from 10 companies. Here are the latest to join in: ARM, CleNET, Flander, Fujisoft, Huawei, Inmote, Innopath, RedBend, Scalado, Symsource, Trango and Visa, I bet you recognize some of those names. They all want in the Symbian cell phones of the future.

The foundation is actually expected to be running in the first half of 2009 and we’re going to get a full open-source platform by 2010. Let’s keep our fingers crossed then.

If you enjoyed this post, please or subscribe to the feed and get future articles delivered to your feed reader.