Symbian is a mobile operating system (OS) and computing platform designed forsmartphones and currently maintained by Nokia. The Symbian platform is the successor to Symbian OS and Nokia Series 60; unlike Symbian OS, which needed an additional user interface system, Symbian includes a user interface component based on S60 5th Edition. The latest version, Symbian^3, was officially released in Q4 2010, first used in the Nokia N8.
Symbian OS was originally developed by Symbian Ltd.[4] It is a descendant of Psion's EPOC and runs exclusively on ARM processors, although an unreleased x86 port existed.
Devices based on Symbian accounted for 29.2% of worldwide smartphone market share in 2011 Q1.[5] Some estimates indicate that the cumulative number of mobile devices shipped with the Symbian OS up to the end of Q2 2010 is 385 million.[6]
By April 5, 2011, Nokia released Symbian under a new license and converted to a proprietary shared-source model as opposed to an open source project.[2]
On February 11th, 2011, Nokia announced that it would migrate away from Symbian toWindows Phone 7.[7]In spite of this, Nokia stated that Symbian will continue to be maintained for some years.
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