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Symbian

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Symbian
An open source smartphone operating system for ARM processors from Nokia. In 2010, more than a third of all smartphones sold worldwide were Symbian phones (for details, see smartphone OS). In 2011, Nokia announced that, going forward, it would use Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system for its smartphones.

Symbian uses the WebKit browser, and apps are written in C++, Qt, Flash and Java (J2ME). Prior to the Symbian platform, which combined OS and all related components into one system, versions used numbers such as Symbian OS 9.1, 9.2 and so on. Platform releases changed their designations to Symbian^1, Symbian^2 and Symbian^3.

From EPOC to Symbian OS/S60 to Symbian
The Symbian platform started out in the late 1980s as the EPOC operating system for PDAs from the Psion Software division of London-based Psion PLC (www.psion.com). In 1998, Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola and Psion created Symbian Ltd. to support the EPOC OS as an independent entity, and EPOC OS was renamed Symbian OS. In 2009, the Symbian Foundation was launched to offer the Symbian platform under an open source license, which includes the Symbian OS, the S60 user interface and related components. In late 2010, Nokia took over Symbian development, and the Foundation closed its operations except to provide licensing and legal support. See smartphone.
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Nokia has set focus to let its Symbian Professional Services unit to be acquired by technology consultant firm Accenture.
Nokia's Symbian goes to Accenture by International Business Times - US ed.
By Tony Cripps Symbian Ltd is likely to avoid being seen as a Nokia shop after three of the company's other shareholders chose to take up their rights to buy a share of Psion Plc's stake.
Symbian's Autonomy Assured as Owners Split Psion Stake by Cripps, Tony / Computergram International
NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA), a provider of visual processing solutions, has joined the Symbian Platinum Program to support the growing market for cell phones based on Symbian OS.
NVIDIA JOINS SYMBIAN PLATINUM PROGRAM by Computer Workstations
 
 
 
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