According to medias of foreign countries, Symbian is headquartered in Britain, is a intellectual mobile phone software manufacturer. If Nokia promise, Nokia is operating system free and opening to the outside world pairs of Symbian partick cell-phone purchase.
At present, nearly 2/3 of the intellectual mobile phones use the Symbian cell-phone operating system in the whole world, it is equivalent to 6% of the global mobile phone share. But a batch of mobile phone platforms introduced recently such as GoogleAndroid cell-phone and apple iPhone have constituted enormous threat to leading position of market of Symbian.
Strategy analyzes the company (Strategy Analytics) Analyst Neil Marston (Neil Mawston) Say: "This measure of Nokia, just in order to tackle new market competition. Nokia should keep its global intellectual mobile phone and sell the champion's throne, must introduce a strong weapon that can beat back the rival. "
Uncle of analyst Qiao Fu and Bradley of the market survey Company CCS Insight of Britain (Geoff Blaber) Think: "This ruwants measure of Nokia should be to the cleverest method which the software provider of other mobile phones threaten. "
Gartner analyst card holds the west of the Buddhist nun in Milan of Lin heidi0428 and Na (Carolina Milanesi) Think, this measure of Nokia will bring enormous presure to Microsoft, because this company is making great efforts to march into the consumer market. Windows Mobile of Microsoft is the mobile phone operating system that the rank is second only to Symbian, the present market share is only 13%. It is reported, each hand machine of Microsoft will collect 8 to the expenses of 15 dollars, but Symbian only collects 4.1 dollars. The west, Buddhist nun of Milan, think this it is Microsoft that really win the real reason why consumers like while being difficult.
Nokia say it get Sony Ericsson, Ericsson, Panasonic, Siemens,etc., shareholder of Symbian, accept and purchase wanting to invite the irrevocable assurance already, these some shares account for 91% that Nokia purchased the share this time. Nokia expects, Symbian another big shareholder Samsung will accept and purchase inviting soon too. Symbian share that Ericsson, Sony Ericsson, Panasonic and Samsung hold is 15.6%, 13.1%, 10.5% and 4.5% respectively.
Nokia announces at the same time, unite AT&T, LG, Motorola, NTT DoCoMo, Samsung, semiconductor, Dezhou instrument and Waduven, Ericsson of Sony and law of Italy set up Symbian alliance, further promote the development of Symbian. Nokia will inject software assets such as Symbian operating system and S60 into the foundation, livedoor other members will inject UIQ and MOAP software into, each side's plan introduces the new union Symbian platform in 2009.
Nokia expects, the trade will be finished at the end of this year, will charge to the wealth newspaper of 2009, da-te the assets will realize the balance between revenue and expenditure in 2010 after purchasing, made profits in 2011.
