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posted February 12, 2010
The operating system
powering roughly half of the world's
smartphones
has been getting progressively more open in order to compete with
Android
and other
Linux-based operating systems
.
Symbian development kits
for Nokia's
Series60-based phones
have become easier to obtain and more small-developer friendly, and recently the
Symbian Foundation
released the entirety of the S60 code base, meaning that the overwhelming majority of the smartphone market is now based on open operating systems (the only exception is the
Apple iPhone
).
The initial release, unfortunately, only compiles using antiquated, proprietary tools, so the Symbian Foundation is working on adding support into the
GNU Compiler Collection
to compile the codebase.