Nokia officially announced its tendency to complete a deal to buy Symbian, improved operating systems for handheld devices and used by Nokia in a huge number of phones sold around the world, fully. I do not know exactly what you pay Nokia to take this step only now and is controlled almost entirely on Symbian OS and enough to be the largest developers of the system and the largest share of mobile operating systems Symbian different versions. But in any case Vnukia, which already owns 48% of the shares of Symbian planned to complete a deal worth 264 million euros for the effective control of the company and buy 52% of the shares of the company is what is left to become Symbian belong to her completely.
Remaining shares owned by a large group of companies that use mostly copies of the regulations in a number of Symbian and its organs, but no doubt does not depend on the adoption of such system by Nokia, the companies are Sony Ericsson, Panasonic Mobile, Siemens and Samsung.
The most noticeable thing is not this deal, but he followed this announcement, Nokia announced the deal as well as the establishment of a new alliance with the name Symbian Foundation and aims to make the system Sybmian open source operating system and available to all free of charge (Does this remind you of something to do with words ??). Symbian Foundation is an alliance of companies, Nokia, AT & T, LG Electronics, Motorola, NTT DOCOMO, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and Vodafone.
Obviously, it is no longer a secret to anyone, it seems quite clear to us at this time that Nokia has realized the seriousness of the Open Handset Alliance and Android system next, and hastened to confront this danger before it arises. But what holds us of the significance of this goes beyond mere competition between two operating systems, but he carries us indication of the nature of the market mobile operating systems in the next phase, this market seems to me, heading steadily towards openness, open source and the major alliances, an alliance Fbatmam Symbian Foundation will we have 4 systems, open source and completely free and is the system of Symbian, Android, Ubuntu Mobile, and LiMo, although it is too early to predict the nature of competition between these four systems, since any of them had completed growth after including Symbian and which would be required some time to shift to a system free and open but the significance is clear and smart phones to come on the stage of unprecedented change and will form the core of this operating systems change.
