Nine New Members For Symbian Foundation

By Digital Trends Staff July 10, 2008

Nine New Members For Symbian Foundation

For an organization that’s barely two weeks old, the Symbian Foundation is flourishing. The Nokia-led group, which was formed to help develop and open-source Symbian over the next two years, has just added nine more members to its original 10, and claim that there’s interest from more than 150 other companies.

The original group – Nokia, Symbian, Motorola, AT&T, NTT DoCoMo, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and Vodafone – came together with the intent to develop and open-source Symbian, and also bring other, Symbian-derived platforms into the OS, according to ZDNet.

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The new members are 3, TIM, Marvel, America Movil, Aplix, EB, EMCC Software, Sasken and TietoEnator.
3’s director of products, Fergal Walker, said:

"3 is pleased to support the Symbian Foundation and believe this is a significant development in open mobile software platforms. 3 has established a leading position in mobile internet with the highly acclaimed x-series suite of services, which has now evolved into an even more open approach to the internet on mobile devices. We believe that this initiative will provide an excellent opportunity to expand the range and quality of services for our customers."

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