Nokia intends to acquire 52.1% of Symbian from its competitors – Ericsson (15,6%), Sony Ericsson (13,1%), Panasonic (10,5%), Samsung (4,5%) and Siemens (8,4%). Instead, Finnish giant announced the creation of Symbian Foundation, lifting of royalties for the right to use Symbian OS and plans to turn it into an open platform.

According to the company, Sony Ericsson, Ericsson, Panasonic and Siemens have already accepted the offer of Nokia. Samsung, in the opinion of Nokia, will do so soon. The cost of the purchase will be approximately $410 million

Furthermore, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola and NTT DoCoMo announced today the intention to unify Symbian, S60, UIQ and MOAP (S) in one open (!) Software platform, which will develop a new generation of converged devices. That decision lies at the core of Symbian Foundation, which will start in the first half of 2009.

Henceforth wishing to take a united Symbian should enter into an organization each year to pay $1500 in the form of contribution and are exempt from payment of Symbian. For developers Symbian Foundation membership optional. Key members are already AT & T, Broadcom, NTT DoCoMo, Ericsson, Freescale, Fujitsu, LG, Motorola, Nokia, Orange, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Texas Instruments, T-Mobile, Vodafone.

We will return to this subject in the near future – for today appointed a key press conference Symbian Foundation.

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