Broader collaboration between Symbian and Google at either the application or operating system level is possible in the future, Symbian's CEO said Wednesday.

"We have a good relationship with Google," Nigel Clifford said at a Tokyo news conference."In fact Symbian was one of the first mobile platforms to put their applications such as Google search and maps," he said as he showed his mobile phone.

Google is about to compete head-to-head with Symbian in the cell phone space with the launch of its Android platform and Symbian is reorganizing to meet that challenge.

Is this potential cooperation relevant to the CAT-iq market?

It might be. Google and Symbian together are strong both in mobile and the desktop, so potentially in the home as well; fixed mobile convergence.

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