Nokia To Buy Symbian

After using Symbian as the operating system of its cellphones, Nokia is finally going to buy it and come up with an open source platform of its own. It's a clear challenge to Google's Android, which is going to be delayed, according to earlier reports.

Nokia is to buy out the remaining shares in Symbian that it does not already own for $410 million, and it will then contribute Symbian and its own Series 60 (S60) platform to a new not-for-profit organization called the Symbian Foundation.
The Symbian Foundation will "make selected components available as open source at launch", Nokia said in a statement.

The Symbian Foundation is almost a mirror of the Open Handset Alliance in the sense that it's also composed of multiple companies joining together. Considering the similarities so far, maybe Nokia will have a development contest of its own in the future.

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