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As Berin and I have noted here before (here and here), there seems to be no shortage of competition and innovation in the mobile operating system (OS) space. We’ve got: Apple’s iPhone platform, Microsoft’s Windows Mobile, Symbian, Google’s Android, BlackBerry, Palm OS (+ Palm’s new WebOS), the LiMo platform, and OpenMoko. I am missing any? [...]

Global handset manufacturing giant Nokia has purchased the shares they didn’t already own in Symbian, Ltd., the company formed in 1998 as a partnership among Ericsson, Nokia, Motorola and Psion and the developer of the Symbian mobile operating system, by far the world’s leading OS for “smart mobile” phones with 67% of the market, followed [...]