Symbian Foundation and Nitobi have announced an open source partnership designed to simplify mobile application development.
By integrating Symbian's web application creation tools and Nitobi's PhoneGap 'write once, run anywhere' platform, mobile developers can now easily make app store-ready applications for all major mobile platforms.
In addition, Nitobi has contributed PhoneGap to Symbian, which is included in the Symbian^3 platform web extensions package.
With these in place, any web developer who knows HTML, CSS and JavaScript can now write a mobile app once and deploy it across multiple operating systems and devices.