Nokia has been working on symbian platform for a long time now. When symbian was introduced TEN years back, Nokia, Sony ericsson, Motorola and Psion were the other partners for development of symbian. Now, Nokia feels the need to buy other shares of symbain.

Symbian has been the worlds most used operating system for mobile devices for a long time. Nokia has been using Symbian platform for its s60 phones for a decade now.

Motorola and Sony Ericsson have signed up to contribute UIQ assets, while NTT DoCoMo (which uses Symbian-based wares in a number of its phones) will be donating code as well.

Its the time for celebration. Symbian celebrates TENTH anniversary this month

Symbain was born as a software by Psion’s, which later turned out to be our very own Symbian. Ericsson, Nokia, Motorola and Psion were the original share holders of Symbian. It has then made a history.

The initial 150 employers worked out of the affectionately remembered ’sweetshop’ building, an unassuming block located in Harcourt Street, London.

There is also a special page dedicated on symbian site celebrating a decade. tenyears.symbian.com

Funambol, Inc., the leading provider of Mobile 2.0 messaging software powered by open source, today announced that it has secured $12.5 million in Series B funding, led by mobile-focused venture capital firm Nexit Ventures. Castile Ventures participated as a new investor and was joined by existing investors, Walden International and HIG Ventures.

The total funding target they aim at is $25 million. Funambol will use the funding for the growth of push email service further.

Right now, Funambol provides open source push email and PIM sync solutions for more than 1.5 billion mobile devices, including phones from Apple, Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, LG and others

You can enjoy this service from www.funambol.com

Though this hasn’t been officially announced by the American company, here is a quick review on Motorola ZN5. Motorola has packed some exciting features with it.

This device is runs on Linux and comes with a whooping 5 mega pixel camera, which is certainly the main highlight of this device.
Again it has observable similar keypad as that of motorola ROKR E8.
It has 5 mega pixel Kodak camera which will support auto-focus. Its also equipped with 3.5mm standard audio jack and a microSD card slot,a USB slot, a QVGA display and TV-out port.