From the Symbian Foundation and Texas Instruments comes the news that the Zoom OMAP34x-II mobile development platform will be the first reference platform for the Symbian Foundation. This is a test device, capable of running various mobile operating systems, that can be used, to test code, by those wishing to contribute to the open source platform. It is also useful for developers wanting to explore and conduct tests on upcoming Symbian platform releases.
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This sounds like something the AAS team should get a hold of and produce a blog post every 2 weeks to show what has changed in the platform. Maybe the foundation can donate one to you or maybe you can collect donations on this site.
Starting price of > $1000 is a bit much.
By the way, the new Symbian^X nomenclature is a very bad idea: try to google for Symbian^3, and se how nothing but noise spews out.
These days project names should be carefully chosen so as to be indexable, or be condemned to obscurity. See what happens with the "D" programming language.
Unregistered, I suspect most people will just call it "Symbian 3", especially as the ^ character is quite unusual and hard to find on most keyboards. It's a bit like S60 being officially "S60 Xth Edition" but in reality everyone saying "S60vX".
There was no Symbian 3.0, the first version to use the Symbian name was 6.0, so the confusion with old OS versions should be minimal at the beginning.
I think the Symbian ^3 maybe temporary anyway.
devilsrejection - yes that's something I've already been thinking about. Though there's certainly a cost issue. (More geeky terriotory than some stuff we wouuld cover, so harder to justify.