Mobile Industry Endorsement for Symbian Foundation Grows

(Business News & Technology News, 11 Jul 2008)

The initial board members of the Symbian Foundation have welcomed continuing support from mobile industry leaders for their plans for the Symbian Foundation and the evolution of Symbian OS as the leading, open platform for mobile innovation.

Plans for the Symbian Foundation were announced on June 24, 2008 by the initial board members AT&T, LG Electronics, Motorola, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Samsung Electronics, Sony Ericsson, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and Vodafone, together with Symbian Ltd. An additional 11 organizations supported the announcement on that day. At present, nine further companies are confirming their endorsement of plans for the Symbian Foundation, including mobile operators 3, América Movil and TIM, semiconductor manufacturer Marvell plus services and software providers Aplix, Elektrobit Corp. (EB), EMCC Software, Sasken and TietoEnator.

"We were delighted with the broad support for plans for the Symbian Foundation¡±, said Kai Oistamo, Executive Vice President, Devices at Nokia, on behalf of the initial board members. "We believe that this is a significant move for our industry and are pleased that these additional market leaders agree and are giving their support to the initiative."

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