London, UK - Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola and NTT DOCOMO announced today their intent to unite Symbian OS(TM), S60, UIQ and MOAP(S) to create one open mobile software platform. Together with AT&T, LG Electronics, Samsung Electronics, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and Vodafone they plan to establish the Symbian Foundation to extend the appeal of this unified software platform. Membership of this non-profit Foundation will be open to all organizations. This initiative is supported by current shareholders and management of Symbian Limited, who have been actively involved in its development.  Plans for the Foundation have already received wide support from other industry leaders.

为实现基金会的组建，诺基亚公司宣布，将全额收购目前爱立信、松下、三星、西门子和索尼爱立信公司所持所有Symbian公司股份，使Symbian Limited成为诺基亚全资子公司。然后，他们将把所有Symbian和S60的软件知识产权贡献给Symbian基金会。与此同时，索尼爱立信和摩托 罗拉将向基金会提供UIQ系统技术，NTT DoCoMo向基金会提供MOAP技术资产。Symbian基金会将把这些技术整合为一个完整平台，使用通用的UI架构，并从基金会开始运作的第一天起全 免费向所有基金会成员提供该系统授权。基金会成员未来将继续对该开放平台进行后续开发，并公布部分组件的源代码。

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