{"id":584,"date":"2008-06-25T22:50:23","date_gmt":"2008-06-26T05:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wapreview.com\/?p=584"},"modified":"2008-06-26T06:37:14","modified_gmt":"2008-06-26T13:37:14","slug":"open-source-symbian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/584\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Source Symbian"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The mobile world is abuzz with the news of Nokia’s plans to open source Symbian.\u00a0 There’s been a lot of great analysis of what this means for Nokia and its major competitors.\u00a0 If you aren’t up to speed on what it means, I recommend Micheal Mace’s in depth business analysis, Symbian changes everything, and nothing<\/a> and Simon Judge’s developer perspective<\/a>,<\/p>\n What I’m\u00a0 wondering though is how the existence of a free, high quality, open source mobile software stack will change the whole mobile ecosystem.\u00a0 I’m struck by two things:<\/p>\n A lot depends on just how complete Symbian’s open source offering is. I don’t think the software that manages the cellular radio or the boot loader needed to flash a new OS onto a phone are considered part of the OS. There’s a lot of licensed intellectual property tied up in cellular radio software that can’t open sourced.\u00a0 The would-be phone manufacturer and the hacker will have quite a bit of work to do to fill in the missing pieces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The mobile world is abuzz with the news of Nokia’s plans to open source Symbian.\u00a0 There’s been a lot of great analysis of what this means for Nokia and its major competitors.\u00a0 If you aren’t up to speed on what it means, I recommend Micheal Mace’s in depth business analysis, Symbian changes everything, and nothing and Simon Judge’s developer perspective, What I’m\u00a0 wondering though is how the existence of a free, high quality, open source mobile software stack will change … Continue reading \n