Thread: N900 compared to iPhone v3, Palm Pre, N97
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2009-06-11 , 09:38
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#88
Originally Posted by Architengi View Post
Because Symbian is OPEN SOURCE
It will be, but isn't yet. It also seems that the open source version that will be eventually released is going to be somewhat different to what exists on actual devices today.

and it has an emulator for Windows - it is a Symbian VM where the developers can run Symbian apps like on the phone
It's not quite an emulator in the traditional sense. It's a separate target platform (it runs IA-32 binaries and is neither binary nor source-level compatible) and you have to explicitly compile your app for it (using a different compiler which is unlikely to be open sourced).

Bottom line: it's very unlikely that existing binaries will run on Symbian^2 at all.

this, but I would be more than interested to be able to keep my investment in the Symbian apps I already made
Just out of curiosity, what kind of apps are you talking about?
 

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