The symbian operating system is now open source and free . The symbian platform which is 10 years old now has new rival in googles android.
With symbian now open source any individual or organization can use or modify the symbian code. Symbian is already in use in about 330 million devices most of which are nokia phones.

108 packages of symbian source code are now available for download from symbians web site, along with this the development kits for creating applications can also be downloaded.
So well we got to thank android which makes symbian open source . This open a world of opportunities. Also this gets more competition into business and consumers can now expect the fastest and the best at the cheapest price and this also provides variety .

Symbian site to download : tiny.symbian.org/open