Monday 23rd November 2009 – Cork, Ireland – FancyFon Software Ltd. today announced that it has joined the Symbian Foundation, which, together with its ecosystem, is creating the most proven, open and complete mobile software platform. The platform is based on Symbian OS and software assets contributed by Nokia, NTT DOCOMO, and Sony Ericsson, including the S60 and MOAP(S) user interfaces. Portions of the source code are already being moved to open source, under the Eclipse Public License. By mid-2010, this process will be complete.

“The Symbian Foundation welcomes FancyFon into the community,” said Shaun
Puckrin, head of community support for Symbian. “Developers and ISVs are crucial to creating the richest possible user experiences. We are eager to see the innovations that FancyFon Software will bring to Symbian consumers.”

As a member of the Symbian Foundation, FancyFon gains the immediate right to license the Symbian Foundation platform, royalty free and without source code fees; participate in the governance of the foundation; and take part in joint marketing and branding campaigns.

About FancyFon
Established in 2006, FancyFon provides a portfolio of industry-leading solutions for the mobile device lifecycle management market, enabling any number of mobile phones or network devices using a variety of operating systems - including RIM, Symbian, Apple, Windows Mobile, Android and Java-based feature phones - to be centrally and remotely managed, over the Internet. FancyFon Mobility Center (FAMOC™) provides asset, configuration, application, and security management, as well as remote support for handsets based on all of these mobile platforms, either as a hosted or as an on-site solution. With its head office in Cork, Ireland, FancyFon customers include service providers, large enterprise and government organizations in Europe and the United States. www.fancyfon.com


About Symbian Foundation Limited
The Symbian Foundation is an independent, non-profit organisation whose mission is to enable an open ecosystem that collaborates to create the most complete and richest user experiences for mobile devices. Symbian maintains the code for an open source software platform based on Symbian OS and software assets contributed by Nokia, NTT DOCOMO, and Sony Ericsson, including the S60 and MOAP(S) user interfaces.

Portions of the platform's source code have already been moved to open source, under the Eclipse Public License. By mid-2010 this process will be complete, making the platform code available to all for free.

The foundation software licensing model and governance structure has been designed to secure transparency, encourage contribution and maintain platform consistency. The foundation promotes collaboration, contributions and active participation, and operates as a meritocracy.

Symbian's board of directors is comprised of the following companies: AT&T Mobility LLC, Fujitsu Limited, NTT DOCOMO, Inc., Nokia Corporation, Qualcomm Innovation Center, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB, ST Microelectronics NV, Texas Instruments Inc., Vodafone Group Services Ltd.
The Symbian Foundation now occupies offices in the UK (London), US (Foster City), Japan (Tokyo), and Finland (Helsinki), and will soon have a regional operation in China (Beijing).

For more information please visit www.symbian.org or blog.symbian.org.