Symbian OS

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 40. Chapters: S60 (software platform), Symbian instant messaging clients, Symbian software, Qt, Symbian Ltd., Angry Birds, Comparison of Symbian devices, Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, Nokia Nseries, Fring, Nokia Eseries, Nokia N73, The Core Pocket Media Player, Nokia PC Suite, Nokia E90 Communicator, Nokia E50, Carbide.c++, Open Programming Language, Web Browser for S60, Python for S60, Symbian Foundation, Adaptxt, EQO, Quiet Internet Pager, Palringo, Nokia E75, Nokia C5-00, UDigits, Nokia 5230, Accredited Symbian Developer, Mobile Web Server, Nokia C5-03, Nokia 5530 XpressMusic, P.I.P.S. Is POSIX on Symbian, Nokia 5250, PackageForge, SIS, Nokia Software Updater, Active object, WikiPock, OctroTalk, Cleanup stack, Samsung SGH-i550w, Gravity, Zombie ShootAR. Excerpt: Symbian is an operating system (OS) and software platform designed for smartphones and currently maintained by Nokia. The Symbian platform is the successor to Symbian OS and Nokia Series 60; unlike Symbian OS, which needed an additional user interface system, Symbian includes a user interface component based on S60 5th Edition. The latest version, Symbian^3, was officially released in Q4 2010, first used in the Nokia N8. Symbian OS was originally developed by Symbian Ltd. It is a descendant of Psion's EPOC and runs exclusively on ARM processors, although an unreleased x86 port existed. Devices based on Symbian accounted for 29.2% of worldwide smartphone market share in 2011 Q1. Some estimates indicate that the cumulative number of mobile devices shipped with the Symbian OS up to the end of Q2 2010 is 385 million. By April 5, 2011, Nokia released Symbian under a new license and converted to a proprietary shared-source model as opposed to an open source project. Nokia C6-01, running Symbian^3 The Symbian platform was created by merging and integrating software assets contributed by Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Sony Ericsson and Symbian Ltd., including Symbian OS assets at its core, the S60 platform, and parts of the UIQ and MOAP(S) user interfaces. In December 2008, Nokia bought Symbian Ltd., the company behind Symbian OS; consequently, Nokia became the major contributor to Symbian's code, since it then possessed the development resources for both the Symbian OS core and the user interface. Since then Nokia has been maintaining its own code repository for the platform development, regularly releasing its development to the public repository. File Symbian was intended to be developed by a community led by the Symbian Foundation, which was first announced in June 2008 and which officially launched in April 2009. Its objective was to publish the source code for the entire Symbian platform under the OSI- and FSF-approved Eclipse Public License (EPL). The code was published under EP