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Symbian Foundation Opens Symbian Kernel Source Code

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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RE[4]: Symbian

by ariarinen on Sat 24th Oct 2009 13:13 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: Symbian"

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2009-02-07

I don't think they use Java for those functions, in high-end segment. Java is just for apps.

They use Jalimo JVM and probably J2SE

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RE[5]: Symbian

by spiderman on Sat 24th Oct 2009 13:52 in reply to "RE[4]: Symbian"

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2008-10-23

I didn't mean that they use J2ME for sending SMS. I meand that J2ME apps can send SMS. You can't send SMS with J2SE. You could add all the J2ME libraries into J2SE but then J2SE would become J2ME. With J2ME, you can send SMS, use bluetooth and do everything you need on a mobile. With J2SE, you can't.

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RE[6]: Symbian

by VZsolt on Sat 24th Oct 2009 15:17 in reply to "RE[5]: Symbian"

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2008-10-31

Have you checked on Android yet?

It's a modern Java environment with telephony APIs all around, without being as retarded as Java ME. I dare say even Symbian's only advantage over it is that the apps are running natively.

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