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Symbian OS is a proprietary operating system designed for mobile devices, with associated libraries, user interface, frameworks and reference implementations of common tools, developed by Symbian Ltd. It is a descendant of Psion's EPOC and runs exclusively on ARM processors although a non-productized x86 port exists.
On 24 June 1998, Symbian Ltd. was formed as a partnership between Ericsson, Nokia, Motorola, and Psion, to exploit the convergence between PDAs and mobile phones. Symbian was previously owned by Nokia (56.3%), Ericsson (15.6%), Sony Ericsson (13.1%), Panasonic (10.5%), and Samsung (4.5%). Ten years later to the day, on 24 June 2008, Nokia announced that they intended to acquire all shares that they did not already own.[2] The acquisition was of €264 million, or $410 million.[3]
On 24 June 2008 the Symbian Foundation was announced with the aim to "provide royalty-free software and accelerate innovation".[4]
Symbian OS is the leading OS in the "smart mobile device" market. Statistics published November 2008 showed that Symbian OS had a 46.6% share of the smart mobile devices shipped in third quarter of 2008, with Apple having 17.3% (through iPhone OS), RIM having 15.3% and Microsoft having 13.5% (through Windows CE and Windows Mobile).[5] Other competitors include Palm OS, Qualcomm's BREW, Google Android, SavaJe and MontaVista Software.
This helps verifying your cell phone model against Operating system series/ Symbian Series.
S60/S80/S90/os8.1
The following example sets come under this category:
Ngage,6600,6630,6670,6680,7610,7710,9300,9500, N72
Symbian OS 9.1 / 9.2
The following example sets come under this category :
3250,5500,E50,E60,E61,E90,N71,N73,N80,N82,N91,N92,N93,N95
Further detailed on Symbian Series :
(V1 means Series 60 1st Edition and so on)
Symbian Series 60 V1 and V2
3600, 3620, 3650, 3660, 7650, N-Gage, N-Gage QD 3230, 6260, 6600, 6620, 6630, 6670, 6680, 6681, 6682, 7610, N90, N70, N72
Symbian Series 60 V3
3250, 5500, 5700, 6110, 6120, 6290, E50, E60, E61, E61i, E62, E65, E70, E90, N71, N73, N75, N76, N77, N80, N91, N92, N93, N93i, N95
Symbian Series 80
7710,9210,9210i,9300,9500