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Symbian the Mobile Operating System
Posted Date: 29 May 2008 Resource Type: Articles Category: Product Reviews
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Posted By: karthiknath Member Level: Silver
Rating:  Points: 3
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Symbian is a software licensing company that develops and licenses Symbian OS, the global open industry standard operating system for advanced, data-enabled Smart Phones.
Symbian OS is the market leading open operating system for advanced data-enabled mobile phones licensed by the world’s leading mobile phone manufacturers. It is designed for the specific requirements of advanced 3G mobile phones and beyond.
Symbian OS combines the power of an integrated applications environment with mobile telephony, bringing advanced data services to the mass market. Symbian OS v9.5, the latest evolution of Symbian OS, delivers over 70 new features for high-performance, more powerful smartphones at mass market costs: a truly scalable operating system for the global market.
Symbian is currently owned by Nokia (47.9%), Ericsson (15.6%), Sony Ericsson (13.1%), Panasonic (10.5%), Siemens AG (8.4%) and Samsung (4.5%).
Competitors for Symbian
Windows Mobile
Palm OS
Embedded Linux
RIM – Research In Motion
Statistics published July 2006 showed that Symbian OS had a 67% share of the 'smart mobile device' market, with Microsoft having 15% and RIM having 6%
Symbian OS supports a wide range of rich programming environments including C++, Java, VB, C#, OPL and Flash.
Tools to develop
Carbide C++ (IDE)
Perl
Software Development Kit (SDKs)(Series60, UIQ)
Perforce
Symbian C++
H2/H4 Boards
Emulators
Developers can use whichever tools they are familiar with
DevStudio, Eclipse, Carbide, CodeWarrior, NetBeans
Latest Symbian Phones
Nokia : N96,N95,N82,E90,E60i,N80,N81,N90,N93,N72,N73
Sony Ericsson: W960,W950,P1i,M600i,P990,P910
Samsung: SGH-i560,SGH-D730,SGH-i450,SGH-i520,SGH-i550
For more details, visit http://www.symbian.com
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| Author: Sachin 06 Jul 2008 | Member Level: Silver Points : 1 | welcome you as u are the new member of ISC
contribute more and make ISC bigger and better. Contribute more .there may be competition, dont get jelous, some will talk something, but u go in right path
My best wishes
Regards
sachin
| | Author: Sachin 06 Jul 2008 | Member Level: Silver Points : 1 | welcome you as u are the new member of ISC
contribute more and make ISC bigger and better. Contribute more .there may be competition, dont get jelous, some will talk something, but u go in right path
My best wishes
Regards
sachin
| | Author: Balaji Madhavan 19 Aug 2008 | Member Level: Silver Points : 1 | I am using Nokia Mobile powered by the symbian software
Actually it is very easy to use and have great features but there is a threat of viruses and i was once damaged my software by virus attack.
So from my review it has the most unique features but the security against threats are less.
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