Wow, in a very smart and future focussed move, Nokia, Symbian’s biggest supporter and shareholder has bought the remaining shares and promptly turned them over to the Symbian Foundation (Read the press release here). A pretty damn fine present for the worlds most popular mobile phone platform as it reaches it’s 10th birthday.

This may be a suprise, but when you consider the moves and pace of the open-source mobile platforms, it is an essential move to avoid Symbian being left behind.

Great news for consumers, at this rate the mobile phone platform community will be makig an example for desktop platforms to follow.

Open thinking.

~ by Thinker on 24 - June - 2008.