Nokia Paying $10M For Symbian Software Devs

Posted by Soulskill on Friday September 24, 2010 @04:35AM from the desperation-mode-kicks-in dept.

colordev writes "Yesterday Nokia and AT&T announced a mobile software coding contest worth $10 million in prize money. The move is intended to help Symbian compete with Android and iOS. The day before this announcement, Sony Ericsson said it would not be making any new Symbian devices and is instead focusing on Android. That left Nokia pretty much alone with Symbian, and now it wants to find new coding 'friends' to keep the platform alive. Natural selection seems to be slowly eroding Symbian's future. Is this contest too late?"

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Rebranding Is Overdue by Revotron · 2010-09-24 05:27 · Score: 0, Redundant

Nokia really needs to rebrand their mobile OS line. Every time I hear "Symbian" I think of some odd mechanical sex device.
Re:Who is Nokia again? by clone53421 · 2010-09-24 05:35 · Score: 0, Redundant

Try mentally omitting the “m” as you read. It makes it so much more interesting...

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