The “Windows phone” will no longer be independent. Ten years after the creation of the company Symbian, a consortium of industrialists together Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita / Panasonic, Motorola and Psion, whose EPOC operating system served as a basis for future Symbian OS, the British publisher should finally fall in the bag one of its shareholders: the powerful Finnish equipment manufacturer Nokia. Arrival of Siemens and Samsung, creation of Sony Ericsson, Psion and then leaving Motorola … In ten years the share of Symbian has evolved significantly, principally for Nokia, which has even failed to take control of the publisher in 2004 if other shareholders did not were opposed, arguing their rights of preemption . Main shareholder (47.9%) but also the main client since its Symbian software equip the majority of its smartphones middle and high-end (N Series, E Series ,…), Nokia will finally put an additional four years convince other shareholders. Symbian shareholders The Finnish group has launched this morning a bid of 264 million euros over the 52.1% it does not control. Etudiee by Samsung, the offer was against already been accepted by Sony Ericsson (13.1%), Ericsson (15.6%), Siemens (8.4%) and Panasonic (10.5%), which should give allow Nokia to control 95.5% stake in Symbian. The other part is to transform a Symbian .. free software (license Eclipse), developed by a foundation, supported by AT & T, LG Electronics, Motorola, NTT DoCoMo, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and Vodafone. A strategy, suggesting the development of Linux or Mozilla, which should enable current customers Symbian to exploit this free software, in addition to their own interfaces: S60, Nokia, Sony Ericsson UIQ home or MOAPS among partners DoCoMo . 
In ten years, Symbian will therefore failed to meet the major manufacturers of mobile phones but it will still be imposed on more than 250 million smart phones, distributed by more than 200 cellular operators around the world. It remains now is whether affiliation with Nokia and the creation of a foundation will enable the European software to become a software market for mobile phones claimed by Microsoft (Windows Mobile), Access (ALP, Palm OS), RIM (Blackberry OS), Apple (iPhone OS) or in the near future Google, with its highly anticipated Android.
Jun 29