Symbian Mobile Platform To Become Free, Rivaling Android & iPhone

The Symbian mobile software is already what Android aspires to be: the world's dominant smartphone operating system (it runs Nokia smartphones, among others). But it isn't free, or I should say wasn't free until today. Nokia announced that it was buying the shares of Symbian that it doesn't own -- the licensing company was founded in 1998 by Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia -- in order to make it ...
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