Hacker News Reader

They did make Symbian open source[1], but I don't think it's still available. And I'm not sure if it was complete. I think when the Symbian Foundation disbanded and Nokia took over (again), they may have done some more work in closed repos.

Possibly here https://github.com/SymbianSource

[1] https://www.wired.com/2010/02/symbian-operating-system-now-o...

View on HN

I think its a mystery as to why we don’t see Symbian phones from manufacturers that should take advantage of their opensource repository...

Because it's completely obsolete now?

That explains why nobody is making a new Symbian device today, it does not explain why they stopped around 2010.

Nokia apparently abandoned development so they can make windows 7 phones. Android filled the gap, but android was probably an inferior product before Symbian was abandoned.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com