Symbian has completed the process of open sourcing its entire code base, in advance of its June deadline. While the release is ahead of schedule, the first phones – expected to be out early next year – will hit the market more than two years after the first Android phone became available. The code is expected to become available on the Symbian developer page on Thursday.
An operating system that’s shipped on 330 million devices goes open source… and it only makes “Page 2” on OSNews??
Getting away from that silly rant… I wonder if an open-source symbian could be used on a UMPC/smartbook form factor to re-create the Psion experience.
Never had a Psion, but does Symbian these days even resemble that os? Sure, it was formed from Epoch, but it’s had years and years to go in its own direction. I’m not sure how effective it would be on a netbook-like device, if for no other reason than basically all 3rd party apps are written for a smartphone form factor and would have to have their user interfaces redone. Symbian itself would need a major UI overhaul as well.
It sure does. Not the UI of course as the Pearl DFRD came later on, but the C++ language, networking, the UI backbones etc. are still ancient.
Symbian is getting a complete UI overhaul this year.
OSNews might as well get rid of this “Page 2” crap, since people *still* don’t seem to know what it is (yet think they do)…
I also think page2 has failed.
Why not weave the headings of page 2 into page 1.
It would certainly make navigating OSnews easier for me.