If Symbian has historically been bound up with the fate of Nokia, part of the unspoken rational behind the creation of the Symbian Foundation is to go beyond Nokia, which is also facing… ...

In total, Symbian OS licensees account for more than 80 percent of worldwide mobile phone sales. Symbian's mission is to create a mass market for Symbian OS mobile phones by enabling Symbian OS ...

The Symbian Foundation has launched Horizon, its application publishing programme for developers writing apps for the mobile operating system. Horizon, which was announced in July, is designed to ...

Symbian on Tuesday released its second quarter financial data. The Nokia-owned company said that it bested last year's sales mark with 19.6 million units sold. That may seem high, but over the ...

One of the most striking changes that Nokia will make as it transitions under new Chief Executive Stephen Elop is an embrace of the wireless technology CDMA, which Verizon Wireless and Sprint use ...

Despite years of investment in its Symbian operating system, Nokia has picked the Linux-based MeeGo instead to go head to head with Apple's iPhone and other higher-end smartphones. The Nokia N8 ...

My new Symbian-based phone was always as bad as ever, sometimes worse. For the past year I’ve had a Nokia E71, which runs Symbian S60. On a practical level I can’t fault the E71.

The Symbian operating system has gained compatibility with Intel's Atom processor. This opens the door for adapting Symbian so that it can be used on Atom-based mobile Internet devices (MIDs).

Good Effortless Reinvention. Even though Symbian is the leading smartphone operating system in the world, it is kind of old news and Nokia knew that—hence moving it to open source.

Symbian is now officially dead, Nokia confirmed today. In the company's earnings announcement that came out a little while ago, Nokia confirmed that the 808 PureView, released last year, was the ...

Nokia also says Symbian Belle offers improved multitasking support, along with redesigned widgets in a number of sizes to handle things like contacts, email, calendar items, and music.

Symbian still is a factor at Nokia, which plans to sell 150 million Symbian devices in the future. But it's clear Nokia is trying to become less encumbered by its old strategies and their expenses.