Symbian lays out mobile OS roadmap

09.01.2010

Other capabilities eyed include a low-level geocoding framework and APIs and direct support for the Bluetooth UI. Version 4 also may support Qt location UI applications. Parallel processing in multicore processors is a priority as well.

Symbian had been acquired by Nokia but became a separate entity, with a goal of offering the Symbian OS as an open source platform.  The OS is expected to be fully open source in the first half of this year.