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What is Symbian

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What is Symbian

Postby kmpisces » Sun Jul 14, 2013 8:27 pm

What is Symbian? IS this US based. I do not think I have heard of it. It sounds vaguely familiar but I cannot think of what it is. Is this a type of phone or OS?
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Re: What is Symbian

Postby cutler4life » Sun Jul 14, 2013 11:49 pm

I also haven't heard of Symbian. I am interested to hear a first hand account rather than a few basic google searches. If anyone has even heard of this, please post some information!
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Re: What is Symbian

Postby kmpisces » Mon Jul 15, 2013 12:53 am

Glad I am not the only one who has not heard of it. I would say the same thing here. I have only been able to find things out by doing some searches. And with that, I have only found some real general information. It has not told me a lot. Hopefully someone will help us learn more.
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Re: What is Symbian

Postby john » Mon Jul 15, 2013 10:53 am

Symbian is a mobile operating system (OS) and computing platform designed for smartphones and currently maintained by Accenture.[5] Symbian was originally developed by Symbian Ltd.,[6] as a descendant of Psion's EPOC and runs exclusively on ARM processors, although an unreleased x86 port existed. The current form of Symbian is an open-source platform developed by Symbian Foundation in 2009, as the successor of the original Symbian OS. Symbian was used by many major mobile phone brands, like Samsung, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, and above all by Nokia. It was the most popular smartphone OS on a worldwide average until the end of 2010, when it was overtaken by Android.
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Re: What is Symbian

Postby robert » Mon Jul 15, 2013 10:58 am

Finnish smartphone creator Nokia announced that it had shipped its final handset running the Symbian operating system. As the last company in the world building phones using the Symbian OS, Nokia's withdrawal from the platform means Symbian is now completely defunct.
Symbian's fall from dominance is a tale about which books can (and should) be written. Its origins date to the '80s, but as of 1998, Symbian's existence was formalized when an old PDA company, Psion, changed its name to Symbian and took funding from the major phone manufacturers at the time, including Ericsson and Motorola, to become the official caretaker of the rising mobile OS.
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Re: What is Symbian

Postby john » Mon Jul 15, 2013 11:02 am

But Nokia has always been Symbian's biggest supporter. The company produced millions of phones running the OS, and the two have always had close ties. What killed symbian?
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Re: What is Symbian

Postby robert » Mon Jul 15, 2013 11:04 am

So, what killed Symbian? Complexity, according to Nokia. In reports, the company blamed Symbian's difficult and unfriendly code structure for the extended time it takes for a phone using that OS to be developed. BGR quotes a Nokia spokesperson complaining that a typical Symbian handset required 22 months of development time, compared to less than a year with Windows Phone. In today's environment, when markets are made and lost in a matter of weeks, that just won't fly.
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Re: What is Symbian

Postby lindybert » Wed Jul 17, 2013 11:51 am

Symbian does not have 'cool' apps. If we compare the applications with Android and i-OS, Symbian does not withstand the race. May be Nokia Store has a bigger collection than Android or Apple Store but it doesn't mean that every app works perfectly for the devices.
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