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		jbm on Feb 4, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Symbian Operating System now open source To gain market share, maybe; but there are an insane number of devices running Symbian. This might allow us to do some interesting tinkering. Speaking of Symbian - I remember an entire floor at Fujitsu's building in Musashi Kosugi in Kawasaki was completely locked down; no in or out without special clearance. That entire section was devoted to coding in Symbian, and they had some proprietary information about the OS from Nokia about the system.

lanstein on Feb 4, 2010 [–]

This move may well be more relevant to non-US-centric development, especially markets like Finland.

davidw on Feb 4, 2010 | [–]

Try most of Europe, where Nokias are still way more common than iPhone or Android.

plinkplonk on Feb 4, 2010 | | [–]

Not to mention India, the fastest growing largest mobile phone market in the world. Nokia is still dominant here.

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