Motorola announced it will sell its share of the Symbian partnership and turn its emphasis to Java for future smart phones. Motorola was one of the four companies that founded Symbian to develop and licence the Symbian OS used in many smart phones. At the time of the initial partnership all parties agreed that none of the partners would sell their shares for five years. The fifth year has passed and Motorola announced it was selling out to Nokia and Psion.

Motorola will continue to offer smart phones running the Symbian OS although the company will de-emphasize the operating system its handsets will use, and instead emphasize that they can run Java applications.

Motorola is planning to sell 5.8% of the company to Psion and 13.2% to Nokia which will take care of the 19% that Motorola owns.