Symbian Foundation Sets Agressive Development Schedule

The Symbian open source platform is on course for development this year. They expect a new update of the platform every six months.

The first  release of the new software, called Symbian^2,  will be "functionally complete" by the middle of 2009 and should be bug-free by the end of the year.

Successive updates will occur every six months into 2011.

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Symbian developers will start by unifying development behind the S60
user interface, relieving Symbian developers from having to choose
between three distinct user interfaces.

They are under a lot pressure because the Palm webOS is gaining momentum for all its Synergy features.