Symbian Foundation
| Symbian Foundation | |
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| founding | June 24, 2008 |
| Seat | London, UK |
| precursor | Symbian Ltd. |
| main emphasis | Open cell phone operating system |
| people | John Forsyth, Tim Holbrow, Steve Warner, Dietmar Tallroth, Larry Berkin |
| Website | symbian.org |
The Symbian Foundation is a non-profit organization that until November 2010 (with a transition period until April 2011) monitored the Symbian platform , an operating system for mobile phones based on the software developed by Symbian Ltd. developed and licensed Symbian OS based. The Symbian Foundation did not develop the platform directly, but promoted, coordinated and monitored the compatibility between Symbian developments. The Foundation also provided services for its members and the developer community, such as source code collection and distribution , software development kits , documentation, and the distribution of Symbian applications.
In November 2010 Nokia announced that it would take over the development of the Symbian platform completely itself from April 2011 after a transition period. Since then, the Foundation has only been responsible for licensing the operating system. Up until then, Nokia had borne the brunt of the Symbian development, but always had to have the innovations approved by the competitors through the foundation in a laborious process and coordinate with them. Most recently, important members had dropped out, such as Sony Ericsson and Samsung, who announced that they would no longer produce Symbian cell phones.
The Foundation (English for Foundation ) was created by Nokia , Sony Ericsson , NTT DoCoMo , Motorola , Texas Instruments , Vodafone , LG Electronics , Samsung Electronics , STMicroelectronics and AT & T founded.
Symbian platform releases were referred to as Symbian ^ 1 , Symbian ^ 2, etc. (pronounced "Symbian one", "Symbian two"). Although originally planned for mid-2010, the Symbian ^ 3 platform was released on February 4, 2010 under the Eclipse Public License , an open source license. According to the Symbian Foundation, this was the world's largest code base to date that was published as open source. The full source code of a previous Symbian platform release, Symbian ^ 2, was still limited to member organizations; membership was open to all interested companies and organizations.
In contrast to the earlier Symbian OS, which required an additional user interface system (UI) (either S60, UIQ or MOAP (s)), the Symbian platform included a UI component.
Members
Members were in October 2010:
| Device manufacturer | Service and software companies | Financial service providers | Semiconductor manufacturer | Cellular provider |
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Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Symbian Foundation press release of November 8, 2010: Symbian Foundation to transition to a licensing operation , accessed on November 9, 2010.
- ↑ press release from Nokia: Mobile leaders to unify the Symbian software platform and set the future of mobile free . Retrieved January 22, 2010.
- ↑ Press release by the Symbian Foundation . Retrieved February 4, 2010.
- ^ Symbian Foundation website, members section