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Google‘s Android OS gets a boost as Sony Ericsson announces it is dropping Symbian for the open-source Android OS.
“We have no plans for the time being to develop any new products to the Symbian Foundation standard or operating system,” company spokesman Aldo Liguori told Bloomberg.com. Sony Ericsson plans to move toward Google’s open-source Android, which has been gaining traction in the smartphone OS marketplace. Symbian OS is best known as one of Nokia‘s mobile operating systems for mobile devices and smartphones.
Liguori told the news organization despite dropping support for Symbian, the company would remain a member of the Symbian Foundation and noted Android would become an important, if not exclusive, part of Sony Ericsson’s strategy going forward. The Symbian Foundation is a non-profit organization that stewards the Symbian platform and was founded by Nokia, Sony Ericsson, NTT DoCoMo, Motorola, Texas Instruments, Vodafone, LG Electronics, Samsung Electronics, STMicroelectronics and AT&T.
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