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Symbian has completed the process of open sourcing its entire code base, in advance of its June deadline.

While the release is ahead of schedule, the first phones — expected to be out early next year — will hit the market more than two years after the first Android phone became available. The Symbian software will have to be unique and attractive to compete with Android, its main open-source competitor, and other popular operating systems, an analyst said.

The process of making the Symbian operating system open source started with Nokia’s announcement in June 2008 that it would buy out the rest of Symbian and release the code to the public.

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In a bid to speed up development of the symbian platform Nokia is to skip the offering of symbian version 2 to go direct to version 3 with the multi-touch functions, states Michael Hsu, general manager of Nokia Taiwan.  Symbian version 3 will be here for the third quarter of 2010.

Nokia’s QT development framework featured for symbian version 4 will allow developers the ability to develop for both Symbian and Maemo platforms simultaneously.

Nokia will continue with its present categorisation of symbian s40 products at a shipment rate of 35%, symbian s60 will account for 55% of Nokia’s handset shipments, with Maemo at 10%.