Linked by David Adams on Wed 2nd Jul 2008 19:12 UTC, submitted by snydeq
InfoWorld's Tom Yager speculates on the road ahead for Symbian now that Nokia has established the Symbian Foundation to lead the OS into its open source era. The Foundation -- which includes five Symbian licensees, three major wireless carriers, and two embedded semiconductor manufacturers -- is certainly a motley crew, yet, as Yager writes, 'If Foundation members could agree on a set of objectives, it might be able to drive a new device from concept to wireless network deployment in a fraction of the time it takes today.'
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Symbian is probably the best mobile OS out there. Ir is well-designed, versatile and stable across a whole range of device classes from featurephones to super-PDAs/subnotebooks (of which the Nokia E90 is basically the last example)
It's also completely doomed if it stays closed source. On the low end of its functionality, Java-based phones now offer the same level of functionality. At the high end, Linux has practically taken over the market. In the mid-range, Blackberry and Windows Mobile are dominating, and a whole host of Linux-based solutions are within 3-6 months of coming on the market too.
An open-source Symbian. while possibly not able to fight the Blackberry and Microsoft juggernauts, might at least be able to compete against Linux in the "laptop-replacement" market. Left as is, however, I see nothing good.