Nokia soon after taking over symbian have announced their intention of launching  an organization called the Symbian Foundation, which will make the Symbian mobile operating system an open platform, with licenses to be offered royalty-free.

Expert around the world are speculating that feel that this move is a direct challenge for the Android mobile platform, which is being developed by the Open Handset Alliance established by Google Inc., and also for Linux-based mobile operating systems such as the LiMo Foundation.

Nokia also announced that they will acquire the remaining shares of Symbian Software Ltd. that it doesn’t already own in the second half of the year. It currently owns about 48% and will pay about $410 million for the rest. Nokia will then own all Symbian assets and will transfer them to the Symbian Foundation. Nokia will also transfer intellectual property added by Nokia to Symbian and to the Nokia S60 mobile platform.

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