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Symbian

Symbian is a discontinued mobile operating system (OS) and computing platform designed for feature phones and smartphones. It was originally developed as a proprietary software OS for personal digital assistants on June 5, 1997 by the Symbian Ltd. consortium. Symbian OS is a descendant of Psion's EPOC, and was mostly used on ARM processors, although an…

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Available in
48 languages
Default user interface
S60 (from 2009)
Developer
Symbian (1998–2008) Symbian Foundation (2008–11) Nokia (2010–11) Accenture on behalf of Nokia (2011–13)
Final release
Nokia Belle Feature Pack 2 / 2 October 2012; 13 years ago (2012-10-02)
Initial release
5 June 1997; 29 years ago (1997-06-05) (as EPOC32)
Kernel type
Real-time microkernel, EKA2

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Features

Application development

Architecture

Symbian UI variants, platforms

Version comparison

Market share and competition

Criticism

General

Development-related

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Symbian

Nodes188
Edges187
Triples317
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.010638
Components1

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Symbian

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related to Multiple language support · 69
Symbian → All, Arabic, Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Malaysia, Basque, Brazilian, Bulgarian, Canadian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Cyrillic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Farsi, Filipino, Finnish
related to Application development · 19
Symbian → Adobe Flash Lite, Alternative, Carbide, Edition, Feature Pack, From, It, Java ME, Linux, Mac OS, Maemo, MeeGo, Python, Qt, Qt Creator, S60, SDK, Symbian/S60, Windows
related to history · 19
Symbian → Afterwards, EPOC32, Ericsson, Fujitsu, In June, Japanese, LG, MOAP, Motorola, Nokia, Psion, Psion Software, S60, Samsung, Sharp, Sony Ericsson, Symbian Ltd, They, UIQ
related to Criticism · 18
Symbian → After, All, Early, Edition, English, For, In, Latin, Nokia N97, Nokia's S40, OK, QWERTY, RAM, Russia, Series, The, This, Ukraine
related to Symbian C++ · 17
Symbian → As Symbian OS, Before, GCC, GNU Compiler Collection, Individual, Qt SDK, S60, SDK, SDKs, Symbian OS, Symbian Software's, The SDKs, There, UIQ, Up, Windows-based, WINS
related to Malware · 15
Symbian → Bluetooth, Cabir, Commercial, Developers, GPS, GSM CellID, However, Installed, Instead, IrDA, Some, Symbian OS, Symbian Signed, This, Unix-style
related to Other languages · 14
Symbian → Edition, Flash Lite, Java ME, NET, NS Basic, Python, Ruby, S60, Standard C/C, UIQ, Visual Basic, Web Runtime, Widgets, WRT
related to Market share and competition · 13
Symbian → However, In Q1, Japan, Nokia's, North American, Palm OS, PDAs, Q1, Q3, Symbian Ltd, This, United States, Windows Mobile
related to External links · 12
Symbian → Alexander, Archived, February, July, June, October, OhlohThoukydides, PDF, SIS File Format, Symbian Archived, Symbian OS, Wayback Machine
related to Qt · 10
Symbian → Application, Apps, As, Carbide, IDE, It, QML, Qt, Qt Creator, SDK

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os nokia s60 software platform user development devices interface 2010 mobile applications phone used also foundation file qt application market

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
SymbianAvailable in48 languages1.00infobox
SymbianDefault user interfaceS60 (from 2009)1.00infobox
SymbianDeveloperSymbian (1998–2008) Symbian Foundation (2008–11) Nokia (2010–11) Accenture on behalf of Nokia (2011–13)1.00infobox
SymbianFinal releaseNokia Belle Feature Pack 2 / 2 October 2012; 13 years ago (2012-10-02)1.00infobox
SymbianInitial release5 June 1997; 29 years ago (1997-06-05) (as EPOC32)1.00infobox
SymbianKernel typeReal-time microkernel, EKA21.00infobox
SymbianLicenseProprietary software, formerly Eclipse Public1.00infobox
SymbianMarketing targetFeature phones Smartphones1.00infobox
SymbianOfficial websitesymbian.nokia.com (defunct as of May 2014), symbian.org (defunct as of 2009–10)1.00infobox
SymbianOS familyEPOC (Symbian)1.00infobox
SymbianPackage manager.sis, .sisx, .jad, .jar1.00infobox
SymbianSource modelProprietary software, formerly free software (2010–11)1.00infobox
SymbianSupported platformsARM, x861.00infobox
SymbianUpdate methodSymbian Signed certificates1.00infobox
SymbianWorking stateNo longer supported1.00infobox
SymbianWritten inC++1.00infobox
Symbianis adiscontinued mobile operating system0.90text

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