Right, just as everyone’s thinking that Symbian would die soon because Samsung pulled out, and Apple’s iOS is battling fiercely with Google’s Android, and everyone’s leaving behind Symbian. Now here comes the knight in white shiny armour.

The European Commission has emerged as the saviour thanks to a €22 million public / private joint venture and a new association of some 24 organizations ‘easily’ called SYMBEOSE: “Symbian – the Embedded Operating System for Europe.” It seemed to be that some of the higher-ups across the continent are feeling a little emotional about the hometown platform — especially now that it’s starting to take a lot of heat — and have thrown some skin in the game to keep things interesting. For its part, the Foundation says that the initiative (and presumably the money) will go toward developing “new core platform capabilities,” exploring cloud computing, and broadening the platform’s hardware ecosystem, among other things.

SOURCE via Symbian