SYMBIAN OS™
Symbian OS™ is a proprietary operating system, designed for mobile
devices, with associated libraries, user interface frameworks and reference
implementations of common tools, produced by Symbian Ltd™. It is a descendant
of Psion's EPOC and runs exclusively on ARM processors.
Symbian™ is currently owned by Nokia™ (47.9%),
Ericsson™ (15.6%),
Sony Ericsson™ (13.1%), Panasonic™
(10.5%), Siemens™ (8.4%) and
Samsung™ (4.5%).
© 2007 Symbian Software Ltd
Key features of the current Symbian OS™:
Mobile phone and smart phone orientated OS
Optimised for low-power battery-based devices and for ROM-based systems
Partly open-source
"Symbian and Symbian OS based trademarks are brands of Symbian Software Ltd."
Symbian OS 9.5, released in March 2007, introduced demand paging, support for mobile digital television and also location services
On June 24, 1998, Symbian Ltd. was formed as a partnership between Ericsson, Nokia, Motorola and Psion, to exploit the convergence between PDA's and mobile phones.
