Come Thursday, the Symbian ten-year old source code will be made available for free. This transfer from a propriety code to open source is marked as the largest in the history of software, as claimed by the Symbian Foundation.
Lee Williams, the executive director of Symbian Foundation, stated that the dominant operating system provider is indeed Symbian. And now that their source code is made available, they wish for developers to do so much more and offer to them the ability to go beyond what they have currently accomplished.
Nokia phones have been powered by Symbian and have been shipped in more than 330 million devices all over the world. In the year 2008, Nokia acquired a big share of the company, and then came the birth of Symbian Foundation. Nokia has created the Symbian Foundation to give out the platform as an open source project which led to the beginning of the opening up of the source code.
The move to open source was completed four months ahead of the planned date and now it offers mobile developers all over to come up with ways to innovate. Now any company or individual tweak and modify the Symbian code for just about any device, be it phones or tablets, or any other gadgets.
William shared that open source is also about open governance and about giving others the chance to control point guide the asset base and the feature set.
The question now is that will this move be enough for Symbian to bring in the customers and steal them away from the younger and more hip rival?
It seems that it was yesterday when the LG Chocolate BL 20 came out in the market. This time around a LG has released another version of the Chocolate the BL 40. The LG BL40, or shall we say as the new “Black Label”, is thin, sexy, classy and most of all it feels like a chocolate bar. Speaking of chocolate bar, the LG BL40 is more like of a designer’s phone, it is fashionable but deep inside that glorious skin comes sheer raw power of the phone.
The LG BL40 comes fully equipped with a brilliant 4.0 inch capacitive touchscreen at a crystal clear 16M colors. The LG BL40 can display an aspect ratio of 21:9 just like those found in the cinema screens. It supports video formats like DixX/XviD, so watching movies on the go may seem like a walk in the park.
It also has a TV-out, FM transmitter, Dolby Mobile and a 3.5 mm jack. And were not stopping there it also has a 5 megapixel autofocus camera with a full range of connectivity features, bundled with a very intelligent task manager. Expect this phone to have both beauty and brains.
Not only it has an S-Class Touch UI, but this phone packs a whooper. It has a 1.1GB internal storage and is expandable of up to 32GB with the use of a micro SD card.
The LG BL40 simply just stand out from the rest of the crowd. The bar from factor is hardly a revolution but the BL40 makes it a silhouette and leaves a great positive impression from the rest. The LG BL40 Chocolate measures at a mere 128 x 51 x 10.9mm and weighs only at 129 grams. You might be shocked of the height of the phone but once you get used to it wouldn’t be much of a trouble.
