This week at LWN: Symbian to be another open mobile platform

  2008-07-09 16:00:03
The already crowded open source mobile phone software market just got more so as Nokia has announced plans to open up the Symbian operating system. Symbian currently has the biggest installed base of any mobile OS, which makes this announcement somewhat more surprisingâ€' market leaders generally do not radically change their successful methods. What it means for the various Linux mobile phone initiatives is unclear, but it certainly shakes things up a bit. 
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