Motorola leaves Symbian...

News posted August 29th, 2003 by eric

Nokia and Psion have announced this morning that they will buy the shares from Motorola in the Symbian consortium. It is then expected that Nokia increases its shareholding from 20% to 32% and while Psion increases from 24% to 31%.

Motorola still remain a Symbian licensee but wants to keep its primary focus on Java.

The full press release is available on Nokia web site.


> Motorola leaves Symbian...

On August 29th, 2003 Frontier (not verified) said:
This isn't good. Another company that could provide something in Symbian C++ development (a better general toolkit or IDE - they do provide the Codewarrior Wireless studio for Java for free to their developers) left.

> Motorola leaves Symbian...

On August 29th, 2003 Anonymous said:
I don't think this will affect CodeWarrior for Symbian OS C++ tools deliveries.

> Motorola leaves Symbian...

On October 13th, 2003 lucas (not verified) said:
What can you expect from the yankees!!!!!!!!! microsoft and motorola, the 2 pays to our beloved bush