Symbian

What is Symbian?

Symbian was a mobile operating system (OS) and computing platform designed for smartphones and currently maintained by Accenture. Symbian was originally developed by Symbian Ltd., 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 the most popular smartphone OS until the end of 2010, when it was overtaken by Android.

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Discontinued

In January 2014 Nokia stopped accepting new or changed Symbian software from developers, effectively terminating its support of the operating system.

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• Top positive comment  over 3 years ago • 0 replies

Best mobile OS, but killed by Nokia in favour of linux.
Native Avkon-based apps have a slowest known [by me] consumption of resources and power, and business phones like Nokia E72 and E6 are an ultimate solution for them, who needs phone for work.

I still hope that someone will raise the fallen flag.

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Symbian was added to AlternativeTo by Jatin on Jan 5, 2013 and this page was last updated Nov 12, 2015. Symbian is sometimes referred to as S60.

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  Best mobile OS, but killed by Nokia in favour of linux. Native Avkon-based apps have a slowest known [by me] consumption of resources and power, and business phones like Nokia E72 and E6 are an ultimate solution for them, who needs phone for work. I still hope that someone will raise the fallen flag.

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  ArmanHayots reviewed Symbian
  Best mobile OS, but killed by Nokia in favour of linux. Native Avkon-based apps have a slowest known [by me] consumption of resources and power, and business phones like Nokia E72 and E6 are an ultimate solution for them, who needs phone for work. I still hope that someone will raise the fallen flag.

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