It has been a busy period for the Symbian Foundation, which used the Mobile World Congress show to unveil the Symbian^3 (or S^3 for short) platform, the first entirely open source release following its transition earlier this month to an open source licence.
The Foundation says the release will include a feature of advances including improvements to Symbian’s usability, as well as interface developments and the ability to run even more applications simultaneously.
The Symbian Foundation lists the following improvements for S^3:
S^3 is not available at the moment but is expected to be “feature complete” by the end of the first quarter (31 March). The first devices using the platform are expected to ship somewhere around the Q3 mark this year.
“S^3 is another huge milestone in the evolution of our platform,” said Lee M. Williams, Executive Director of the Symbian Foundation. “Now that it is fully open source, the door is open to individual contributors, device creators and third-party developer companies, as well as other organisations, to create more compelling products and services than ever before.”
In recognition of the increasing competition it faces following the arrival of Apple’s iPhone, as well as rival mobile operating systems such as Google’s open source Android, the Symbian Foundation also said that the developer experience has also been “greatly improved”.
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