Nokia Open Up To Linux Apps

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"Though Linux continues to gain steam as an operating system for mobile phones, Symbian remains a dominant mobile OS.

"Thanks to a new effort from cell phone giant Nokia, the divide between applications targeted at Linux and those for Symbian may be getting a whole lot narrower.

"The Nokia Open C Plug-In extension for the S60 3rd Edition Software Development Kit (SDK) is designed to help the community of open source applications and developers take their apps and port them to Symbian. Nokia's S60 platform is built on top of the Symbian OS..."

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