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Symbian Operating System
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History
Symbian established as a private independent company in June 1998, owned by Ericsson, Nokia, Motorola and Psion.
Symbian is a software licensing company that develops and supplies the advanced, open, standard operating system – Symbian OS – for data-enabled mobile phones.
Versions of Symbian OS:
Release v6.1 2001, · Release v6.2 Q1/2002, · Release v7 200
Release v7 2003 including Multimedia Framework (MMF)
Release v8 2004 allowing manufacturers to build Symbian OSRelease v9 2005 supporting the latest generation of ARM-based processors
Features of Symbian V9
Browsing: full web browser support and WAP stack for mbile browsing
Messaging: support MMS, EMS, SMS, POP3, IMAP4, SMTP, MHTML; standard attachments; fax
Multimedia: shared access to screen, keyboard, fonts and bitmaps; audio recording and playback, and image related functionality (support common audio and image formats), including API for graphics acceleration, streaming and direct screen access
Communication protocols: including TCP, IP version 4, IP version 6 and WAP, IrDA, Bluetooth, USB
Mobile telephony: abstract API for cellular standards.
Data synchronization: over-the-air (OTA) synchronization support using SyncML. Supported over serial, infrared, Bluetooth and USB links. Provides synchronization : PIM data, transfer of files, and document conversion to and from non-Symbian OS formats.
Security: full-strength encryption and certificate management, secure communications protocols (including HTTPS, WTLS and SSL), WIM framework and certificate-based application installation
Application platforms
Series 60 is a UI for mobile phones that are single-handed operated. In addition to voice communication, multimedia messaging, content browsing and application downloading are the main features of this platform.
Series 80 is a UI for devices with larger horizontal screens. It is used in clamshell devices with a keyboard.
UIQ is a customizable pen-based user interface platform for media-rich mobile phones based on Symbian OS.
Symbian OS is also being used in the new Series 90 platform, which is being introduced in the Nokia 7700
phone. With a pen input user interface, a horizontal screen and an optional television tuner, the Nokia 7700
brings mobile multimedia to a new level.