Symbian Free Open Source smart phone system reburning Beacon

In Thursday, the Symbian Association announced that it had completed the Open-source release of the Symbian platform's source code. The move means that the most widely used platform for smartphones is now fully open, and the platform's source code is free to use. It is understood that the global use of Symbian platform, the total number of smartphones has more than 330 million, but with the past two years Google Android, Apple OS, BlackBerry system and other smartphone operating platform development, its market share is constantly being eroded. The Open-source code is clearly the Symbian Association and its associated companies, especially the global handset market, which has fully acquired Symbian, a Jedi counterattack by Nokia, and signs that the Symbian attack is not just about the smartphone market,　　But the broader mobile internet terminal market. Pressure was forced to open up early. Symbian has been one of Nokia's smartphones, and Symbian has been a leader in smartphone operating platforms with Nokia's dominance in the global handset market, especially in the high-end smartphone market, In the third quarter of 2009, Symbian's market share in the smart platform accounted for 45%, is the absolute boss, but compared with previous years, its share of more than 60% of the pomp, in fact, is not as good as before, and the main reason for this situation is Apple OS,　　Google Andorid, BlackBerry OS and other challenger's rise. Apple's OS already accounts for more than 17.1% per cent of the market, according to Gartner, a survey firm, although Android is only 4%, but it has grown by more than four times times from 1% a year ago, and with the number of terminal vendors supporting the system growing　　, its share is expected to grow at a further high rate of about 10% in 2010, plus the 20% market share that BlackBerry OS already occupies, and if the Symbian platform is no longer a big move, it is estimated that by the end of 2010 it will completely lose its leadership position in the intelligent operating platform market. It is because of the presence of these powerful challengers that Symbian has been doing so frequently in recent years that its biggest shareholder, Nokia, has even paid 410 million of billions of dollars for a full takeover of Symbian's shares and announced plans to open free source for Symbian in 2010. But according to the original plan, Symbian's free open source will not be realized until June this year, but the intensified market competition eventually forced Symbian to accelerate the pace, four months ahead of time to send free Symbian to developers.　　All 108 modules currently containing the Symbian platform's Open-source code are now available for download from the Symbian Developer Web site, according to Leewilliams, the executive director of Symbian Association. Addition, the complete development tools for creating applications (Symbian Developer tools) and mobile devices (product development tools) are also available for download.　　Not only that, the future of Symbian's new upgrade platform version will be completely free open source for developers, the new version of the platform named Symbian3 will be in the first quarter of this year with "perfect function" platform. The war will spread to a variety of platforms as a wholly owned owner of the Symbian Association, and Nokia is no doubt the originator of Symbian's free open source. For Nokia, which has already shifted to the mobile Internet, it is not just to keep the Symbian system open to the same free Google Andorid system and apple OS, BlackBerry OS in the smartphone market, with Symbian's open source,　　The platform from the smartphone market to the netbook, mid and other support for mobile internet terminals, Symbian will be made into a cross-platform intelligent mobile Internet Multimedia operating system is its real purpose. In this respect, senior National policy analyst Yang Qun pointed out that the future of smartphones will only be a part of mobile internet terminal equipment, as the market segmentation continues to deepen, netbooks, mid and even new E-book readers will need to be able to better support mobile internet features of the emergence of intelligent platform. At present, the practice of the industry is a product to engage in a system, so that the interconnection between different devices has become a difficult problem, is not in line with trends, so cross-platform Unified intelligent operating system will become the major Internet manufacturers and even the end of the focus of competition. "From the current situation, Google Android is the best situation, because the first free, it has been used by mobile phone manufacturers, netbook manufacturers, tablet manufacturers and even e-book manufacturers, Apple OS although the system is closed, but with the company's own brand power has begun to expand to multi-platform, The recently released ipad is a good example. This time Symbian joined in, the timing is very good, with its many users and developers, it is bound to occupy a very important position in the future competition. "The key to the problem now is speed," says Yang Qun, because Google Android and Apple OS's Cross-platform product line is already complete, and Symbian has to be more rapid in order to really catch up and regain its leadership position.　　In particular, Nokia, the boss behind Symbian, needs to run all the way to achieve a real Jedi counterattack. Nanfang Daily reporter Cheng