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As of today the Symbian mobile OS is finally open source and available for anyone. The best part is that it’s actually the latest version, Symbian^3 (which is also supposed to ship on upcoming Nokia handsets this year). According to the Symbian foundation Over 330 million Symbian devices have been shipped worldwide and 100 million are expected to ship in 2010 (keep in mind that Nokia has shipped 126 million phones in Q4 2010).
Read the FAQon the Symbian developer site.
And take a look at some interesting facts.
Navigate from http://tiny.symbian.org/open
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