Symbian Foundation source available way ahead of schedule
Hey, hackers! Ready to get cracking on a mature, robust mobile device OS?
The Symbian Foundation has completed it’s Open Source’ing of the Symbian kernal. This is the core component of the mobile OS which Nokia had been developing for ten years. Symbian *was formerly* a conglomeration of many companies working on Symbian together, but Nokia spent $1Billion US to buy the rights of Symbian from all the other companies, and announced they were giving it away. A noble gesture to be sure!
Cheers Guys! – image by Julien Fourgeaud
Continuing the topic of freedom, The Symbian Foundation is also gearing up for The Symbian Exchange and Expo in London, October 27 – 28. This free expo will feature vendors and talks from everyone using Symbian, and the talks and expo are all FREE! If you’re in London, check out SEE09.
UPDATE : All About Symbian is also hosting a Pub meetup the night before on October 26th at the Windmill Pub.
Being the hackers that they are, The Symbian Foundation has even released a WRT widget that runs on all Nokia’s back to S60 FP1, like the N95.
“The widget is a small app that will provide up-to-the-minute information about the conference schedule, twitter feeds and more. You can run it on any Symbian device with Web Runtime support”
You can download the SEE09 widget from HERE.
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