Symbian OS

Symbian OS is an operating system (OS) designed for mobile devices and smartphones, with associated libraries, user interface, frameworks and reference implementations of common tools, originally developed by Symbian Ltd. It was a descendant of Psion's EPOC and runs exclusively on ARM processors, although an unreleased x86 port existed.

In 2008, the former Symbian Software Limited was acquired by Nokia and a new independent non-profit organisation called the Symbian Foundation was established. Symbian OS and its associated user interfaces S60, UIQ and MOAP(S) were contributed by their owners to the foundation with the objective of creating the Symbian platform as a royalty-free, open source software.

Symbian isn't the most popular mobile OS in the States, but Nokia's PureView 808 is an interesting mobile device from the Finnish manufacturer,...
11 years 10 months ago
Symbian may be dying a slow death on Nokia, but that's not stopping the manufacturer from releasing a few more devices before its demise. One of...
12 years 11 months ago
Symbian may be dying a slow death on Nokia, but that's not stopping the manufacturer from releasing a few more devices before its demise.  One of...
12 years 11 months ago
Earlier today a representative for 3 UK took some time out of his busy schedule to play around in a park. Okay, that’s only half true. While he was...
12 years 11 months ago
Nokia may be throwing most of their eggs into the Windows Phone 7 basket, but they're pushing Symbian until the end.  Aaron does an unboxing of the...
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Perhaps the most impressive feature on the Nokia N8's spec sheet is its 12 megapixel Carl Zeiss camera. Nokia has a long history of making state-of-...
13 years 5 months ago
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Raw 720p video captured with Nokia N8 (unlocked).
13 years 5 months ago
Aaron gets some hands-on time with the Symbian^3-powered Nokia E7 and N8 at Nokia World 2010 in London. Nice hardware, but in an age of Android and...
13 years 6 months ago
Aaron gets some hands-on time with two of Nokia's new devices, the C6 and C7, at Nokia World 2010 in London. They're packed in metal bodies with...
13 years 6 months ago
N8: Nokia's Future Comes in Colors Yesterday I had the pleasure of going to Dolby Labs in San Francisco for a hands-on demo and briefing with Nokia...
13 years 9 months ago
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It looks like Nokia fans on T-Mobile will have more choice than the Nuron and some low-end candybar phones next month.  A tipster has sent a...
13 years 10 months ago
If you've been following the Nokia N8 over the past few days, you're well aware that it was given less-than-stellar marks by Mobile Review's Eldar...
13 years 10 months ago
For the past month or so several rumors and leaks about Nokia's next flagship device have been floating around the web.  Today the Nokia N8 becomes...
13 years 10 months ago
Ain't no party like an Espoo party 'cause an Espoo party don't stop!  Except it did.  And new phones came out of it. From left to right, the Nokia...
13 years 11 months ago
  Today I got two invites - one via Email and one express mailed from the UK (that must have cost a bunch) - to a Nokia "virtual event" that starts...
13 years 11 months ago
Billed as the latest series of devices from the Finnish manufacturer, the C-Series is intended to be Nokia's “core range of products."  In other...
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