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Symbian, world’s most widely used platform has gone open source. Symbian Foundation, who owns the platform has released the source code of the OS for developers to fiddle with.

This important step could mark Symbian’s future of Symbian that although is in existence for over 10 years but has failed to capitalize to new-age competition from Android and iPhone OS.

Symbian Foundation hasn’t confirmed as to when a phone running open-source Symbian will hit the market but our guess is it could be in early 2011.

The source code containing all 108 packages and SDK are now available for download from here.

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