Symbian Foundation lays out plans for next three years
My friend Rafe Blandford is the most informed and articulate person I know in regards to the Symbian operating system and last year when Nokia and several partners announced the Symbian Foundation I looked to Rafe to lay it all out and explain what the announcement really meant. The Symbian Foundation is a major undertaking and should lead to some amazing software and hardware in the future. Yesterday, the Symbian Foundation introduced their release plan that show two platform releases per year for the next three years.
It looks like Symbian 2 will be based on S60 5th Edition and should be “hardened” by the end of 2009 with Symbian 3 following 6 months later. This new “open” approach with the Symbian Foundation could be quite exciting for us mobile phone fans.
2 Comments to Symbian Foundation lays out plans for next three years
Thank you for this wondeful site. I am currently a Palm Treo 680 owner but plan to upgrade to either the HTC Touch Pro 2 or the Nokia N97 when they are released. I am all into the impressive hardware specs both have to offer, but think my final decision may come down to operating system. I have some familiarity with Windows Mobile and despite what many critics say found it to be a powerful OS especially because of the ability to multi task and with all of the third party applications available for it. How is the symbian OS? I have no experience with this OS. Can you multitask? I am in the medical profession and was wondering if there a lot of third party software availabe? Lastly have you tried running the Palm emulator “Style Tap” for Symbian OS yet? If so how did it run?
Thank you so much and keep up the great work!
Cheers, A potential future Nokia user.
March 16, 2009
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