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Symbian, the UK-based maker of the world's most popular smartphone operating system, is going through big changes. As well as being taken over by Nokia, the company is preparing to convert its closed ...

While Symbian continues to dominate the smartphone market it could soon be facing increasing competition from a new quarter - Maemo. There's no debating that the Symbian platform remains the daddy of ...

Will the last one to leave please turn out the valot? This week, Finnish smartphone creator Nokia announced that it had shipped its final handset running the Symbian operating system. As the last ...

There was a time, long ago, when Nokia dominated the mobile phone market, but sadly, the company failed to evolve with the times. It has been close to a decade since the last high-end Nokia Symbian ...

On Wednesday, Nokia announced the next update of their Symbian^3 operating system, named Belle, would be coming out in February for select devices. Except they didn’t call it Symbian Belle, but Nokia ...

When Nokia acquired the former Symbian Software Limited in 2008 a new independent non-profit organization called the Symbian Foundation was established. One of its main goals was to create the Symbian ...

So long, Symbian. Nestled away in the company's financial announcement this morning, Nokia confirmed that its pixel-punching 808 PureView phone will be the last release powered by the increasingly ...

The Symbian Foundation plans to release a new version of the operating system every six months, with the first expected to appear in phones at the end of this year. Last week the foundation, formed ...

In the largest migration from a proprietary to an open source model ever, the most popular OS for mobile phones (over 330 million phones) in the world is now open source. The Symbian mobile OS which ...

Symbian is hoping to encourage developers to offer interesting desktop applications on mobile phones by making it easier for them to certain port desktop applications to the Symbian operating system.

Just about everyone knows the iPhone--and perhaps also that it runs on Apple's operating system--though the phone only has about 10 percent market share among smartphones. Far fewer know the name of ...