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Symbian reveals fully open-source S^3 build

The Symbian Foundation has officially announced Symbian^3, the first build of the smartphone platform to be fully open source, and said it is on track to have the platform in handsets by the third quarter of this year.

Symbian S^3, which is expected to be feature complete by the end of this quarter, will include usability and interface advances, support for high-speed networks, 2D and 3D graphics acceleration, and HDMI video support.
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"S^3 is another huge milestone in the evolution of our platform," said Symbian Foundation executive director Lee Williams in a statement.

"Now that it is fully open source, the door is open to individual contributors, device creators and third-party developer companies, as well as other organisations, to create more compelling products and services than ever before."

Handsets built on S^3 will get a performance boost thanks to more efficient memory management, according to Symbian, which allows more applications to run at the same timeThe Symbian Foundation has officially announced Symbian^3, the first build of the smartphone platform to be fully open source, and said it is on track to have the platform in handsets by the third quarter of this year.

Symbian S^3, which is expected to be feature complete by the end of this quarter, will include usability and interface advances, support for high-speed networks, 2D and 3D graphics acceleration, and HDMI video support.
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"S^3 is another huge milestone in the evolution of our platform," said Symbian Foundation executive director Lee Williams in a statement.

"Now that it is fully open source, the door is open to individual contributors, device creators and third-party developer companies, as well as other organisations, to create more compelling products and services than ever before."

Handsets built on S^3 will get a performance boost thanks to more efficient memory management, according to Symbian, which allows more applications to run at the same time. Read more...