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Sept. 23, according to foreign media reports, Nokia smart phone software Vice President David Rivas said Nokia has prepared to confront with the high-profile enter of Google to mobile phone business, because the company have many years experience in the development.

Informed sources said earlier, when the T-Mobile in New York Tuesday on the first display of Google’s mobile platform Android, Google will announce its mobile phone software market into the details of the plan. Nokia said in June, as Google to enter the market response, the company will be 410,000,000 U.S. dollars bought British software maker Symbian smartphones of the remaining shares, and then software to give non-profit organization, and its royalty-free.

Rivas said: "I think a mature platform is open source environment, the introduction of the fact that to some extent changed the rules of the game. In the past, developers have two options, first launched copyright and mature platform, and the other is Free but immature platform; now there is only one option, which is free and mature platform. "

Nokia, Motorola, Sony Ericsson and other handset manufacturers to non-profit organizations Symbian assets of the fund, which will be mobile phone manufacturers, network operators and communications chip manufacturers together to create an open source platform.

Rivas pointed out that by the end of June up to date, Symbian mobile phone sales reached 226,000,000, with Google and Apple’s new platform compared to an advantage. He said: "All developers are able to affect the sales tend to find things."

Up to date by the end of June, 92 of the new handsets being developed Symian, section 249 has used the Symbian operating system. So far, 40 companies have signed an agreement to join the Symbian Fund, which is developing the Android "open phone coalition" (Open Handset Alliance) as a member of the 34.

Operators also benefit from the Symbian platform, the platform due to its support services costs. AT & T Wireless Services architecture and planning senior vice president Kris Rinne, said: "From AT & T’s point of view, we are very supportive of the lower mobile phone operating system environment divisive." She said, AT & T plans to introduce more More Symbian phones, is also concerned about the Android development process.

Nokia expects the transaction Symbian will be the end of the year through the regulatory approval of the first integrated platform will be available next year.

Google Android and Symbian platform in the open source and free of charge between the two major issues on the start of the competition is increasingly confined to Microsoft. According to research firm Strategy Analytics said that Microsoft is still mobile phone manufacturers to charge 8-15 U.S. dollars of software license fees.

Microsoft has not been in the mobile phone operating systems market to show what the driving force in the smart phone market share has remained at about 10%.
　
Rivas said that in practice, there is little future to charge each with unique operating system sold by the mobile phone dealers, "the kind of business model is likely to be difficult."