Symbian acquired order Royalty Free

News Nokia takes over Symbian shares is one of the surprising news in the cellular industry last month. The interest not develop such problems, but the effort will be made Nokia and friends after the purchase of shares. Nokia want to make a Symbian operating system or open anymore free-free to compete with Google Android and Apple iPhone.

Nokia this effort seems to indicate that the war in the more open mobile phone operating system business. Operating System took the phone determine the direction of future smartphone. The emergence of iPhone in the last year has been the "Comfort zone" of the big players for this. The existence of the iPhone was deemed the eyes appeared to reverse the perception of all smartphone from a new vendor.

No wonder, when Google with Android it will go to market, all the big players, including Nokia, created panic. Moreover, Android will be open operating system that will cut the price of a mobile phone is very cheap and the application is estimated to grow quickly because it will involve many faithful with a developer of open source.

During this, control Symbian OS mobile phone market with smart control of up to 60%, while Windows Mobile is still around 15%, the rest other OS. Although the start there is significant growth of Windows Mobile, Symbian, but still a major player. Unknown reason for the Nokia Symbian want to make a still greater potential and open it as the OS, the Nokia should dive pocket about U.S. $ 410 million, an amount not less, to develop it.

Meanwhile, during this, the price of licenses Symbian OS to average U.S. $ 4.10 per mobile phone (Windows Mobile compared to about U.S. $ 8-US $ 15 per phone), where Nokia is the largest of the players who each year have to grope koceknya to pay for the license.

Last year, Nokia dikabarkan must pay U.S. $ 250 million to pay for this OS license. Nokia is very reasonable when you prefer to direct U.S. $ 410 to take over Symbian, than to pay a royalty continuously every year. Meanwhile, other members of the consortium thus use Symbian rare, with the exception of Sony Ericsson UIQ. In other words, Nokia can be subsidizing this for Symbian.

According to the CCS Insight research institutions, develop Symbian by Nokia in fact only waiting time. Take over the very reasonable when compared to Nokia continuously pay the high royalties each year. Nokia, according to the CCS Insight, more concerned with the structure of Symbian, which can be a time to threaten its position in competition with other players.

What is Android, which will relieve the cost of the software is the challenges of the commercial OS. Although many initially doubted the success of Android, but the success of the Apple iPhone, which have a product with the OS itself has been concerned about the vendors, other vendors that use the OS port.

This case actually almost similar to the OS computer or PC. Linux operating system has made the price of a PC can be cheaper around U.S. $ 300 to U.S. $ 400 dollars. With Symbian exempt from royalties, price smartphone also is expected to be far cheaper than at this time. Thus, they can compete with Google Android or iPhone 3G, which would be the price below U.S. $ 200 later.

In addition, the open operating system, providing the opportunity for the developers to develop applications for mobile-phone Symbian in the future.

First mobile phone Ready Tried

Nokia estimates the first mobile phone that uses the operating system from Symbian Foundation estimated that the new will appear in 2010. Symbian Foundation's own new plan will start work in early 2009, after Nokia to make a full acquisition of the consortium, creator of the mobile phone operating system.

According to Kai Öistämö, head Nokia devices, which use the first mobile phone platform will appear in 2010, at the same time at which the OS will really become the open source OS. This is to anticipate the influx of Android, which developed the Open Handset Alliance.

Nevertheless, Oistamo revealed, the applications will be developed, such as Symbian S60 is now still working on the Symbian platform from Symbian Foundation. "Element early S60 will remain available to all members of the foundation began early in 2009," he said. While the improvement of the end of the program's code after all the integrated elements, "will begin in the next two years," added another.

All development is done on Symbian version 9 and S60 3rd edition, which will be compatible with the release issued by Symbian Foundation. For the developer program, they can begin to develop this new platform.

Meanwhile, some Nokia phones that concept now appears in the official Nokia site reportedly being prepared for this new platform. mobile phones with smart-phone design is interesting to anticipate the emergence gPhone from Google and the next generation iPhone.

Source: Magazine-HP (edited)