Symbian supports Posix for applications

Mobile OS vendor Symbian doesn't think you have enough desktop-level applications on your cell phone, but they have a plan to fix the situation: they have embraced Posix as an OS standard in the hope of drawing desktop application publishers to their platform. Posix isn't the only development standard supported by Symbian--Flash, Ruby, and Python are among the others--and the company hopes that the variety of standards options will make it easier for companies to port their internal products to the enhanced cell phones.

For more on Symbian's standards support:
- see more in this article at TechWorld