Christian Sejersen confirms Mobile Firefox for Symbian in the works
Christian Sejersen, charged with heading up the engineering efforts for Mozilla mobile back in Oct. 2007, posted news of this new partnership on his personal blog today. He cites recent marketshare stats to support his argument in favor of this new direction:
Q3 2008 Symbian had 49.8% of the total smartphone sales (and 57% in Q2) according to Gartner compared to 11.1% for Windows Mobile and 7.2% for Linux
Symbian has committed in-house engineers to better assist Mozilla in porting Mobile Firefox to its platform. Sejersen offers an open invitation to members of the greater development community to contribute to the newly proposed project.
[via Christian Sejersen]