http://www.abiresearch.com

Visit ABI Research - Wireless Industry Blog Feed

Nokia to Acquire Symbian and Go Open

Posted on June 24, 2008

Big news broke today when Nokia announced that it will purchase the remaining stock it doesn't own in Symbian and then migrate the solution to an Open platform. Anyone that has followed the Symbian environment for long enough would see that there has been financial pressure on Nokia to move in this direction at some point. The sheer economics of the number of devices it ships with the OS versus the value it gets out of its historic shareholding clearly indicated that such a purchase was inevitable at some point. The real added spice in this announcement is that Nokia is openly stating that...

Original article link