In a surprise move, Nokia announced Monday it's taking back control of the open source Symbian project. Symbian is one of the oldest mobile phone operating systems around and has been a Nokia favourite almost since the company's inception.
This intense investment in Symbian is perhaps odd because it follows an announcement, almost exactly a year ago, that Nokia no longer cared for Symbian in its high-end devices, and would aim to use its Linux-based Maemo project instead. However, this failed to happen in the flagship N8 phone, released recently, which again relied on Symbian.

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