Symbian Open Source

Starting today, Thursday (04/02/2010), which are widely used in Symbian smartphone device debuted as an open source platform. Symbian Foundation was officially released open source package for package Kernel & Hardware Services Symbian platform which is free downloadable at its website.

"Package Kernel & Hardware Services is part of the foundation while the entire platform is being developed," the introduction to the Wiki page for developers Symbian. With the release of the Symbian open source package that is officially beginning today, free Symbian used and modified free of charge.

Symbian is actually still be the dominant platform in the global handset market and is used a lot of smartphone vendors. However, major challenges to the entry of major competitors like RIM, Apple, and Google. Last year, Nokia took over all shares of Symbian and decided to make it as open source platform to facilitate the support of content developers.

However, in transition, the new Symbian Foundation provided most of the open source platform with royalty-free license to members only with a license called the Symbian Foundation License (SFL). Source code is opened to the public by licensing EPL (Eclipse Public License) begins with the kernel and is scheduled to be opened fully by mid 2010.

Previously, What would happen if the phone belongs to Nokia broken, then modified in such a way and replaced with the operating system they want? Sure.

Recently, a hacker claimed to have completed the 'project' latest, breaking into one with a Nokia mobile phone series, the N900. Consequently, the N900 is supposed to use the Maemo operating system, now even running with Mac OS X.
Reported by PC Advisor, a hacker named Toni Nikkanen be the first successful run Mac OS X 10.3 or OS X series, known as the Panther's on the N900, OS X 10.3 Apple itself released the first time in 2003.

As is known, the Nokia mark a new phase in the evolution of software. Maemo, a Linux-based software embedded on the Nokia N900 is claimed to be more promising superior performance of the handset.

With Maemo 5 in his body, the Nokia N900 users can have dozens of open windows and applications that run simultaneously.

Nokia outlines that Nokia N900 is equipped with an ARM Cortex-A8 processor, memory up to 1GB of applications and OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics accelerator. This produces a variety of equipment like a mobile computer that is multitasking.

Meanwhile, global economic recovery make some industries such as wireless communication devices slowly began to return cash surplus to finance them. Not with the exception of the world mobile phone leader, Nokia.

Even profits began to improve, making the Finnish vendor could have cut the price of smart phones, in order to compete from competitors Samsung and Sony Ericsson to power in mid-market.

It is even asserted Nokia, this January at the latest if they would be cutting prices by 10 percent. Impact of the reduction was already being felt from now on, for example in the Nokia 5230 series which was previously worth 170 Euros, 150 Euros now.

"This decrease was suppressed in order to make the Nokia Symbian phones that are cheap, as a way for them to dominate the market down," explained Ben Wood observers CSS Insight, told Reuters.

Results smart phone sales report also shows that Nokia appropriate steps. Because, the world's smart phone sales during the fourth quarter of 2009 rose 30 percent. While Nokia itself, smart phone sales also rose 26 percent.

However, Nokia had a strong threat from Sony Ericsson, which already is known as camera phones and cheap music.