Symbian OS will eliminate the software that provides power to almost all smart phones in the world. Symbian was officially released into Open source world in Feb 2010 .This means that the source code, or software blueprint will be available to everyone. Nokia decided to provide the software extensively to make it more popular in the eyes of producers, an unusual step in the technology world. Symbian software is used by more than 330 million mobile phones around the world. Symbian will face new competition in the dynamic arena of smart phones from Apple iPhone and Google’s Android system. Android is also available free for anyone to use.
Symbian is an open source operating system (OS) designed for mobile devices and smartphones, with associated libraries, user interface, frameworks and reference implementations of common tools, originally developed by Symbian Ltd. It was a descendant of Psion’s EPOC and runs exclusively on ARM processors. In 2008, the former Symbian Software Limited was acquired by Nokia and a new independent non-profit organization called the Symbian Foundation was established. Symbian OS and its associated user interfaces S60, UIQ and MOAP(S) were contributed by their owners to the foundation with the objective of creating the Symbian platform as a royalty-free, open source software. The platform has been designated as the successor to Symbian OS, following the official launch of the Symbian Foundation in April 2009. Symbian is the world’s most popular mobile operating system, accounting for 45% of smartphone sales