{"id":824,"date":"2008-06-24T06:10:53","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T16:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/?p=824"},"modified":"2008-06-24T06:10:53","modified_gmt":"2008-06-24T16:10:53","slug":"symbian-s60-and-uiq-team-up-and-go-open-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/24\/symbian-s60-and-uiq-team-up-and-go-open-source\/","title":{"rendered":"Symbian, S60, and UIQ Team Up and Go Open Source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I usually get all kinds of UIQ press releases that I don&#8217;t care about. The one time there is a UIQ related news item I DO care about, I don&#8217;t get anything. Figures. I read this on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brighthand.com\/default.asp?newsID=14127\">Brighthand<\/a> and went over to Nokia&#8217;s site to find the press release.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nokia.com\/A4136001?newsid=1230416\">Mobile leaders to unify the Symbian software platform and set the future of mobile free &#8211; Foundation to be established to provide royalty-free open platform and accelerate innovation<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The gist of the press release is that Nokia is buying all of Symbian (it already owned a big chunk of it) and is creating the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.symbianfoundation.org\/\">Symbian Foundation<\/a>. Sony Ericsson and Motorola and kicking in its UIQ (which used to stand for User Interface Quartz &#8211; I can see why they got rid of that part) UI into the mix. And Docomo (Japan) sounds like it will contribute its MOAP(S) (Mobile Oriented Applications Platform).<\/p>\n<p>The big news though, IMHO, is that Nokia says they plan to Open Source this mix under the Eclipse Public License (EPL) 1.0. I guess this is reaction\/preparation to\/against the Google Android phone platform.<\/p>\n<p>It is a long haul to get phone OSes off the ground and into the market (just as Microsoft or Google) though. So, I don&#8217;t expect to see anything from the Nokia Foundation until 2010 or so at the earliest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I usually get all kinds of UIQ press releases that I don&#8217;t care about. The one time there is a UIQ related news item I DO care about, I don&#8217;t get anything. Figures. I read this on Brighthand and went over to Nokia&#8217;s site to find the press release. Mobile leaders to unify the Symbian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[87,86,85,83,84],"class_list":["post-824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-devices","category-mobile-phones","tag-nokia","tag-open-source","tag-s60","tag-symbian","tag-uiq"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppKRG-di","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}