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Feb
04
2010

Symbian platform goes open source!

| February 4, 2010 09:40 UTC | Comments: |

Symbian, the mobile phone software used on about 330 million phones world wide, went today open source. This means that the software is now completely free to use and edit. The basic OS is now open source, but some phone specific software is not.

The open source version of symbian is called Symbian^3. Previous Symbian versions, S40 and S60, are called Symbian^1.

Read more at Symbian Foundation’s web page here.

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About the Author: Jonne is a mobile phone enthusiast who is currently pursuing his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science at the Vaasa University of Applied Sciences. He has been using the newest phones out there ever since the Nokia 5110 was released. Currently his choice of smartphone OS is Windows Phone 7.5.