Smartphone OS game hots up, with soon-to-be-open Symbian signing some big name players.
Qualcomm, HP, MySpace, SanDisk, Omron and Bank of America have joined the Symbian Foundation, which is overseeing the transformation of the Nokia-owned OS to a royalty-free, open source platform.The organisation's membership is now at 78 companies, compared to 47 at Google's Open Handset Alliance (Android) and 15 at LiMo (not including affiliates).
The full list of new members runs as follows: Atelier, Bank of America, Gemalto, HP, Imagination Technologies, Mobica, MySpace, Nanoradio, Omron Software, Qualcomm, SanDisk, SESCA, SiRF Technology and VirtualLogix.
However, technology and device vendors are hedging their bets when it comes to mobile OSs - Qualcomm and Omron are also members of the Open Handset Alliance.
In addition to Symbian, Android and Limo, the likes of Microsoft, Apple and RIM are battling it out on various fronts in the mobile OS war.
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Lee Williams, Executive Director at the Symbian Foundation, said: "We're in a unique position to continue the rapid growth of the most competitive open software platform. Every single member of our community has a chance to influence the way we evolve and develop our offering."
