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As promised, Nokia is making the latest version
of the Symbian platform source code available to
its platform development partners. The company long touted its intent to deliver the entirety of its open-source operating system
environment to the community.
And now nearly
all of the source code has been uploaded to collab.symbian.nokia.com, and the few remaining source files, tools, and documents will be
uploaded over the next few weeks, according to a post on the Forum Nokia site. Meanwhile, in a post on Nokia's Symbian Blog entitled "We are Open!," Petra Soderling, Nokia's
head of open source for Symbian smartphones,
said, "We are excited about the completion of the
transfer period, during which code delivery from
the Symbian Foundation has now been replaced
by an open and direct model from Nokia." Moreover, added Soderling: "As Nokia announced in February, our plan is for Windows Phone to be our primary smartphone strategy.
While Nokia and Microsoft are working on a
definitive agreement between the two
companies and we have begun working on
product collaboration, Nokia plans to ship at least
150 million Symbian smartphones and to continue deliver innovation and software
updates to the platform. To achieve all of this, we
need the collaboration with our platform
development partners and continue to value an
open way of working." Soderling also reiterated that Nokia will no longer refer to official releases as "Symbian 3" or "Symbian 4," but will deliver continuous
evolution of the platform to partners and
customers. "In line with this approach we are
not delivering software builds, but do offer build
tools through this website, and a SDK [Software
Development Kit] through Forum Nokia." In October 2010, Nokia decided to focus on Qt as
the sole application development framework for
the Symbian and MeeGo platforms. Nokia also
announced its intent to support HTML5 for
development of Web content and applications for
both Symbian and MeeGo platforms. "We have been working hard to turn most
Symbian Foundation era materials into the new
framework," Soderling said.
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As promised, Nokia is making the latest version
of the Symbian platform source code available to
its platform development partners. The company long touted its intent to deliver the entirety of its open-source operating system
environment to the community.
And now nearly
all of the source code has been uploaded to
collab.symbian.nokia.com, and the few remaining source files, tools, and documents will be
uploaded over the next few weeks, according to a post on the Forum Nokia site. Meanwhile, in a post on Nokia's Symbian Blog entitled "We are Open!," Petra Soderling, Nokia's
head of open source for Symbian smartphones,
said, "We are excited about the completion of the
transfer period, during which code delivery from
the Symbian Foundation has now been replaced
by an open and direct model from Nokia." Moreover, added Soderling: "As Nokia announced in February, our plan is for Windows Phone to be our primary smartphone strategy.
While Nokia and Microsoft are working on a
definitive agreement between the two
companies and we have begun working on
product collaboration, Nokia plans to ship at least
150 million Symbian smartphones and to continue deliver innovation and software
updates to the platform. To achieve all of this, we
need the collaboration with our platform
development partners and continue to value an
open way of working." Soderling also reiterated that Nokia will no longer refer to official releases as "Symbian 3" or "Symbian 4," but will deliver continuous
evolution of the platform to partners and
customers. "In line with this approach we are
not delivering software builds, but do offer build
tools through this website, and a SDK [Software
Development Kit] through Forum Nokia." In October 2010, Nokia decided to focus on Qt as
the sole application development framework for
the Symbian and MeeGo platforms. Nokia also
announced its intent to support HTML5 for
development of Web content and applications for
both Symbian and MeeGo platforms. "We have been working hard to turn most
Symbian Foundation era materials into the new
framework," Soderling said.
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