Symbian, iPhone & the New Mobile Reality

Interesting views on mobile platforms and similarities to previous wars in personal computing and operating systems...

"Nokia, already a stakeholder in mobile OS maker Symbian, has announced that it will buy the remainder of the company and throw all the assets into a new platform called the Symbian Foundation, which will unite all the flavors of Symbian into a single, common software platform that will go open source in two years. Major mobile players such as Motorola, NTT DoCoMo, AT&T, LG Electronics, Samsung Electronics, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and Vodafone have all signed on."

http://gigaom.com/2008/06/24/symbian-iphone-the-new-mobile-reality/