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17:42 5th February 2010
The Symbian Foundation has completed its move to offer the code of its hit smartphone platform for free.
The move, first announced in 2008, means that the "billions of dollars" worth of underlying source code of the operating system can be used or modified by anyone "for any purpose."
"This is the largest open source migration effort ever. It will increase rate of evolution and increase the rate of innovation of the platform," Lee Williams of the Symbian Foundation was quoted as saying on the BBC News.
The foundation, which includes Nokia, AT&T, LG, Motorola, NTT Docomo, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and Vodafone, said that it has shipped in more than 330 million phones.
In other news, mid-market smartphone devices will become "progressively smarter" in 2010, according to a market analyst.
Conrad Longmore, editor at Mobile Gazette, said that the sophisticated handsets will offer features that would previously have been limited to phones at the top end of the market.
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