British chip designer ARM, card network Visa, Chinese technology group Huawei and nine others said on Tuesday they planned to join the Symbian Foundation to get free access to its software.
Since June 2008, 52 companies have said they plan to join the foundation, including all major mobile phone makers, AT&T said in a statement, giving it an edge over Google’s Android in a battle over who will dominate the mobile phone software market in coming years.
Nokia, the world’s No.1 mobile phone maker, said in June it would buy out other shareholders of UK-based smartphone software maker Symbian for $410 million and make its software royalty-free to other phone makers in response to new rivals. Read more over at Reuters…
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