Symbian Foundation

Symbian Foundation Ltd.
Company typenon-profit organisation
IndustryOpen mobile software platform
PredecessorSymbian Ltd
Founded24 June 2008
FounderNokia
Sony Ericsson
NTT DoCoMo
Motorola
Texas Instruments
Vodafone
LG Electronics
Samsung Electronics
STMicroelectronics
AT&T
DefunctApril 2011
HeadquartersLondon, United Kingdom
Area served
Worldwide
ProductsThe Symbian platform
Websitesymbian.org

The Symbian Foundation was a non-profit organisation that stewarded the Symbian operating system for mobile phones which previously had been owned and licensed by Symbian Ltd. Symbian Foundation never directly developed the platform, but evangelised, co-ordinated and ensured compatibility. It also provided key services to its members and the community such as collecting, building and distributing Symbian source code. During its time it competed against the Open Handset Alliance and the LiMo Foundation.