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2 unusual facts about Symbian Foundation


Symbian Foundation

The Symbian Foundation was a non-profit organisation that stewarded the Symbian platform; an operating system for mobile phones, based on Symbian OS, which previously had been owned and licensed by Symbian Ltd..

Nokia has been the major contributor to the code, and has been maintaining their own code repository for the platform development ever since the purchase of Symbian Ltd., regularly releasing their development to the public repository.


UIQ

However, all developments in UIQ was halted in 2008 when Symbian Foundation was formed, choosing Symbian S60 as the platform of choice.


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UIQ

S60 is the UI choice of Symbian Foundation; UIQ will contribute its assets to the foundation.