Nokia Corporporation is buying symbian that makes the software for its phones and making it available for free to other manufacturers, in hopes of blunting the influence of competing software providers. Nokia said that it is offering to buy the 52 percent of Britain’s Symbian Ltd. that it doesn’t already own for about $410 million. Symbian’s software is the most widely used on high-end phones. Nokia will then establish a foundation with handset makers Sony Ericsson and Motorola Inc. and Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo to make the software available royalty-free. They will combine their three different versions of the Symbian software for advanced, data-enabled phones into one open platform. AT&T Inc., LG Electronics, Samsung Electronics Co., STMicroelectronics N.V., Texas Instruments Inc. and Vodafone Group PLC will also join the foundation. Nokia said it expects the acquisition to be completed during the fourth quarter of 2008 and is subject to regulatory approval.