According to research firm Juniper Research , Symbian Handset Shipments could double by 2014.The firm sees a mobile phone market being dominated by phones running an open source OS
Phones shipped with a Open Source OS will double by 2014. Currently 60% of the smartphone market uses an open source OS. The main contributor to this number is Symbian. Also Google’s Android platform has a promising future. On a side note Apple’s iPhone , Palm’s Pre and RIM’s Blackberry’s all run Proprietary OSes
The old symbian logo before it was open sourced . The logo of the newly formed Symbian foundation is above. We have an interview with a representative of the Symbian Foundation coming up on FoneArena
