Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 23rd Oct 2009 18:46 UTC, submitted by poundsmack
Ahead of schedule, the Symbian Foundation has released the source code to Symbian's EKA2 real-time, multitasking, SMP microkernel, under the Eclipse Public License. It comes with a complete development kit, free of charge. The Foundation's plan is to open up the entire platform, and this is of course a very important milestone in that process.
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2008-10-23
Yeah and pigs fly. Seriously Symbian OS is probaply one of the worst around, it's memory management has been joke for ages since any program can crash whole phone like Windows 95. It was one of the poorliest documented for long time, probaply still is, so coders hit walls all time and made crap.
It has been mostly designed and coded by company that had experience on rubber boots before starting it and it shows. The plain fact is that Symbian OS is relic that even Nokia is planning to let go in future since they just can't get it work on modern smartphones. This is why Maemo will be future OS of Nokia smartphones ones it matures bit more.
I see this move more an outcry for better support, they want to see if enough people are intrested on moving Symbian OS since they aren't. Oh and before you call me fanboy of some other group I own almost 10 Nokia phones and they are probaply best phones in world for texting and calling but doing anything modern is just masochistic.
Right, it's not perfect, but which OS is better than Symbian for mobiles right now? Don't tell me Maemo. Maemo is promizing and I really like it, but it's not as mature and feature full as Symbian RIGHT NOW. The UI is not designed for and not usable on small screens right now. It does not scale well, although I'm pretty sure it will. It's nice for big smart phones though, but most people want their mobile device to be small.
Edited 2009-10-24 10:55 UTC