Symbian on Intel’s Atom

In what could be considered a reaction to the various Android ports popping up, the Symbian blog is reporting the SOSCO (S60 on Symbian Customer Operations) team has successfully ported the Symbian operating system over to an off the shelf Atom based Intel motherboard.

This development marks an interesting turn in the emergence of netbooks, which are predominantly Atom-based, as the fastest growing computer segments. With non-Intel CPUs now being used in the cheaper models and Linux a feasible alternative for the O.S., netbooks represent the latest and most feasible opportunity for the market to break the decades old Wintel duopoly. The entries of Android and (now possibly) Symbian promise to make the future doubly exciting.