Analyst J. Gold Associates said for the InformationWeek that merger of the two Open Source competitors will begin within three to six months. Nokia owned Symbian and Google created Android are destined to be combined to provide a single open source operating system for smartphones, an analyst firm said Thursday. Nokia and other users of Symbian, which has the largest share of smartphones in the market, do not want to compete in the OS market, the firm said. With Google, the search engine entered the OS market to push the industry toward openness and a level playing field in offering applications and services on the de... .. . Read more: Analyst predicts Android-Symbian merger - full story