Symbian Mobile Operating System

 

Symbian Mobile Operating System

Overview

Symbian was a mobile operating system designed for smartphones. It was produced by the software development company Symbian Ltd. Symbian Ltd was established in 1998. In 2008 Symbian Ltd was renamed Symbian Foundation which provided the new open-source platform. In 2014 the development of Symbian OS was discontinued.

Scope

In this article, we will be learning about the Symbian OS.

We will understand what was the Symbian operating system.

We understand what Symbian operating system is used for and what was the cause of the downfall of the Symbian operating system.

What is Symbian OS?

Symbian is a discontinued mobile operating system developed and sold by Symbian LTD. It was a closed-source mobile operating system designed for smartphones in 1998. Symbian OS was designed to be used on higher-end mobile phones. It was an operating system for mobile devices which has limited resources, multitasking needs, and soft real-time requirements.

The Symbian operating system has evolved from the Pison EPOC, which was released on ARM processors. In June 1998, the Pison software was named Symbian LTD as the result of a joint venture between Psion and phone manufacturers Ericsson, Motorola, and Nokia.

In** 2008**, Nokia announced the accession of Symbian LTD, and a new open-source, nonprofit organization called Symbian Foundation was established.

In May 2014 the development of Symbian OS was discontinued.

What was Symbian OS Used for?

Symbian OS was designed to be used on higher-end mobile phones. The Symbian OS was a mobile OS used on Nokia advanced smartphones. The majority of manufacturers of cell phones used Symbian OS before Android. Nokia was a stakeholder and later purchased Symbian LTD, which had created the Symbian operating system.

The microkernel architecture of Symbian means that only the bare minimum is required in the kernel to maximize robustness, availability, and responsiveness. Symbian was designed to compatibility with other devices, especially removable media files system.

There was a large volume of user interface code. Symbian OS includes a reference user interface called TechView. It is similar to the user interface from the Pison 5 series personal organizer and is not for any production phone interface.