Nokia announced the redemption of the remaining shares of Symbian Limited at a price of € 3647 per share. Over 52% stake in Finnish manufacturer of phones will recognize approximately € 264 million ($ 410 million).

Nokia has already received final consent on the part of Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB, Telefon LM Ericsson, Panasonic Mobile Communications Co. Ltd. and Siemens International Holding BV to commit the transaction. Is also expected to receive guarantees from Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

According to analysts, pribretenie Symbian Limited will enable it to save for the future. Payments Nokia as Symbian licensee last year amounted to more than $ 250 million In addition, this transaction plays a major role in creating Symbian Foundation. In the merger would Nokia, AT & T, LG Electronics, Motorola, NTT DOCOMO, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and Vodafone. And association members are exempt from royalties.

Symbian - one of the leading open platform for mobile devices. With this acquisition and agency Symbian Foundation Nokia plans to accelerate development of Symbian and make it very attractive for innovation. And, ultimately, meet the challenges of LiMo Foundation and Google Android, offering market competitive proposal.

Support for this initiative and the unification of the industry around Symbian shows the need to establish a common ecosystem for developers. Planned to increase efficiency by unifying platform and simplify software delivery schemes.

Symbian Limited is the developer and licensor Symbian OS, the open operating system for mobile devices. The user interface created for Symbian OS, include the S60 from Nokia, MOAP (S) for 3G-networks and production UIQ UIQ Technology, Motorola and SP Sony Ericsson.

Last year, 7% of all sales of mobile devices based on Symbian OS. To date, more than 200 million Symbian OS phones shipped worldwide: the 235 models 8 on the territory of 250 manufacturers of mobile communication networks.

The process of acquisition, the company is expected to be completed in the fourth quarter of this year. Symbian After closing all of its employees will become employees of Nokia.