The Symbian Foundation today announced that it is joining the Open Screen Project, an industry initiative led by Adobe dedicated to enabling the Adober Flash Platform across a broad range of devices.

BARCELONA, Spain & LONDON & SAN FRANCISCO- The work of the Open Screen Project will help deliver Adobe Flash Player on future versions of the Symbian platform. The rich and open capabilities of the Symbian platform combined with the Flash Player will enable Symbian device users to benefit from the huge amount of Flash-based web content for a vivid and complete Internet experience.

    "Symbian has a strong history of supporting Adobe Flash and we look forward to working with Symbian's open source community to greatly enhance the web experience of the millions of people around the globe who use Symbian devices."

"It's difficult to imagine the Internet without the creativity of the millions of developers using Adobe Flash technology, so we're excited to be able work with industry leaders in the Open Screen Project to offer the option of Adobe Flash to our community. This is an important step, alongside our open source initiatives, to provide a powerful Internet experience on the Symbian platform," said Robert Ackland, Technology Manager for Runtimes, Symbian Foundation.

"We're delighted to welcome the Symbian Foundation into the Open Screen Project," said David Wadhwani, General Manager and Vice President, Platform Business at Adobe. "Symbian has a strong history of supporting Adobe Flash and we look forward to working with Symbian's open source community to greatly enhance the web experience of the millions of people around the globe who use Symbian devices."

About Symbian Foundation

The Symbian Foundation is an independent, non-profit organization whose mission is to enable an open ecosystem dedicated to creating the most innovative user experiences on 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. The Symbian platform is now fully open source.

The foundation promotes collaboration, contributions and active participation, and operates as a meritocracy. Symbian's board of directors comprises: AT&T Mobility LLC, Fujitsu Limited, Nokia Corporation, NTT DOCOMO, INC., Qualcomm Innovation Center, Ltd., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB, ST Microelectronics NV, Texas Instruments Inc., and Vodafone Group Services Ltd.

The Symbian Foundation has offices in the UK (London), US (Foster City), Japan (Tokyo), Finland (Helsinki), China (Beijing) and South Korea (Seoul).

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

About the Open Screen Project

Led by Adobe, the Open Screen Project includes close to 70 industry leaders working together to provide a consistent runtime environment across mobile phones, desktops and other consumer electronic devices. The initiative addresses the challenges to bring Web browsing and standalone applications to a broad range of devices, and removes the barriers to publishing content and applications seamlessly across screens. Participants of the initiative include platform providers, device manufacturers, operators, and content providers across the industry. For more information about the Open Screen Project visit www.openscreenproject.org.