Android developers and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) engineers may be frustrated with how Google’s mobile platform is developing, but it seems that its mythic powers to inspire fear in its competitors haven’t waned a bit. Today in Tokyo, Nigel Clifford, chief executive of Symbian, whose software powers some 60 percent of all smartphones, told a group of reporters that it would be “happy to collaborate” with Google, reports Reuters. Indeed, Clifford noted that Symbian already works with Google by putting its map applications and search engine on its platforms. Further collaboration between the two “could be on the application level or…could be on the more fundamental operating system level,” mused Clifford. In June Nokia (NYSE: NOK) announced it was buying the rest of Symbian it didn’t already own and would give it away for free. The move was widely seen as a defensive one against the likes of Google and its Android operating system, Apple’s iPhone, Microsoft’s Windows Mobile OS, and the emerging Linux-based OS’s.

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