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• Chip vendors hope to turn phones into HD media players

  Both Qualcomm and ST-Ericsson are demonstrating at Mobile World Congress concept smartphones that can connect to and play HD content on TVs.

• Symbian goes open source four months early

  Symbian has completed the process of open sourcing its entire code base, in advance of its June deadline.

• Symbian lays out mobile OS roadmap

  Symbian Foundation, responsible for development of the Symbian mobile OS, is readying its Symbian^3 and Symbian^4 versions of the platform, with version 3 likely to be feature-complete next month, a Symbian blogger said this week.

• Sneak peek: Nokia's Symbian OS upgrade

  Nokia is upping the ante against rivals such as Apple and Google with its preview of the upcoming iteration of Symbian OS (V3) for touchscreen devices. The upgraded mobile operating system is expected sometime next year, together with a bunch of new devices.

• Symbian to start new developers program

  The Symbian Foundation plans to launch a publishing platform later this year aimed at helping developers to get their programs into mobile application stores.

• Symbian Foundation makes progress, but challenges remain

  The Symbian Foundation expects to begin beta testing of a new version of its mobile phone operating system within the next few weeks. Symbian, the first version of the software since the foundation said it planned to go open source, should be ready for release six months after that, so smartphone buyers may see the first devices using the software in the first half of next year.