Symbian Goes Open Source, S^3 Announced

pkrass | 23 February, 2010 19:03

The Symbian platform is now entirely open source, and both using and contributing to the platform are now absolutely free. The complete Symbian platform is now available for download and use under open-source licenses. To date, more than 330 million Symbian devices have been shipped worldwide, and another 100 million are expected to ship this year.

And at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the Symbian Foundation introduced Symbian^3, the first fully open-source version of the mobile platform. The new release adds advanced layering and other graphics effects, full HDMI support for TV playback, music-store integration, improved memory management, one-click connectivity, and other features.

For developers, the Qt toolkit is pre-integrated, and the runtime will run on existing devices back to S60 3.1.

Web Runtime (WRT) support remains a key part of Symbian, letting web developers easily create Symbian widgets and standalone applications.

Read more about Symbian going open source.

Read the announcement of Symbian^3.

Download Symbian source code.

Browse Forum Nokia’s Symbian platform portal.


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