Nokia completes Symbian acquisition
In what has been completely overshadowed by the announcement of the upcoming Nokia N97, Nokia announced today that it has completed its offer to acquire Symbian Limited. For those who don’t recall, Nokia announced back in June that it would be gobbling up the 52% of Symbian it did not already own and going open source. In a quick and dirty press release, Nokia stated that it has purchased 99.9% of Symbian shares it did not already own when the original announcement was made. Nokia handsets might take a while to reach market but don’t ever say the Finns don’t move fast when it comes to acquisitions. Now that the hard part is out of the way, expect the final stages of the deal to be signed, sealed and delivered some time in Q1 of next year. Our sincerest hope is that the newly formed Symbian Foundation can manage to give the aging Symbian OS a much-needed face lift and tummy tuck before it’s too late.
And hopefully bring all FP2 features minus the navi-wheel to my FP1 N95-4…….
I wonder if they can do the same for PalmOS…
The competition is getting fierce! Hopefully symbian will get it’s status back. I love this OS. The 6682 was the best…series 40 I think. Slow as hell(not enough ram) but damn good.
It is too late, see Android.
Actually I like symbian but getting into the touch market can prove to be difficult. Hopefully they will pull it off with the 5800 but us Americans love to use our thumbs.
Perfect timing for the Nokia N97…
right on.
Bring on the symbian touch.
No we might just have a winner amongst to touch screen OSs.
I hate to say it but as long as nokia and htc (yes i know they make the g1) decide to push resistive touch screens they will not overthrow the iPhone in the USA.
Cheers for all the help and tips, Symbian can be funny, imagiane if we had to do this kind of thing with Windows!