Qualcomm, Fujitsu join Symbian Foundation

Friday, October 30, 2009 11:20

Two major companies are joining the Nokia (NYSE: NOK)-led Symbian Foundation. They are Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) and Fujitsu (OTCPK: FJTSY), both of which will get a seat at Foundation’s board of directors.

Qualcomm joined through its subsidiary Qualcomm Innovation Center (QuIC), which will “optimize open source software for use with Qualcomm technology.” Does this means the company is looking to somehow link BREW and Symbian. Hmmm, interesting point. We’ll see…

Fujitsu, which is an old guard Symbian heavyweight with more than 40 million Symbian phones sold in Japan, will also try to find its interest by working with other members of the organization. As far as I can tell, they’ve managed to profit from the “old Symbian” and now that the platform is free, they should be able to repeat the success while saving few bucks on licensing along the way.

And that’s all we got for you in this story. You can check out the two official press releases if you care for corporate quotes.