Nokia's announcement this week that it would purchase London-based Symbian Ltd.--a cellphone operating system it co-owned with Sony, Ericsson and Samsung, among others--and distribute the once costly software for free.
To oversee that distribution, Symbian is establishing a nonprofit alliance studded with other tech giants, such as AT&T,LG Electronics, Samsung Electronics, STMicroelectronics ,Texas Instruments,and Vodafone.
The move sparked comparisons to two other mobile consortia: Google's Open Handset Alliance (OHA), a group of more than 30 tech companies that is building an open-source mobile platform called Android, and the LiMo Foundation, which has similar plans. With consumers demanding more advanced services on their cellphones, pundits speculated that Nokia was trying to steal momentum--and developer talent--away from these competitors.
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