Symbian OS

Symbian OS [] is the operating system for smartphones and PDA phones, Symbian Consortium, founded in June 1998, the company: Psion, Nokia, Ericsson and Motorola. Later the company joined a consortium: Sony Ericsson, Siemens, Panasonic, Fujitsu, Samsung, Sharp, Sony and Sanyo. on 24 June 2008, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola and NTT DOCOMO announced formally joins Symbian OS, S60, UIQ and MOAP (S) to create a single open mobile platform. Together with AT&T, LG Electronics, Samsung Electronics, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and Vodafone established non-profit Symbian Foundation. Nokia announced the purchase of the remaining shares are owned by Symbian Ltd. then it will be possible to provide the source code of the members of the Symbian Foundation. This step should help move the Symbian OS in the market for mobile systems. The Symbian Foundation has 40 companies. HarakteristikaSymbian OS is the successor to the operating system developed by Psion EPOC32 for their handhelds. In 1998-2000. a large part of the system has been rewritten to optimize the code to work on devices with limited resources. Developers were able to achieve significant cost savings, improved caching code and therefore speed up the work programme, with reduced power requirements. In terms of design distinctive feature of the system is fully object-oriented architecture (API). Starting from version 9.x appeared serious protection mechanism — distinction API in accordance with the rights of the application (capabilities). Basic application development language, C++, Java is supported at the moment the most common (by number) version is a Symbian OS Series 60 2nd Edition. In 2005, released Symbian OS Series 60 3rd Edition based on new kernel EKA2, thus violating backward compatibility with programs written for previous versions of Nokia companies, Sony Ericsson and others with their smartphones running the Symbian OS. The main competitors of Symbian OS is the operating system Microsoft Windows Mobile (Pocket PC Edition, and Smartphone Edition) and the operating system Google Android several modifications (for different device types), the most common of these is the Series 60 and UIQ, FOMA: UIQ smartphone was primarily produced by Sony Ericsson and Motorola. Distinctive feature of UIQ: support for touch screen devices. Since November 2006, is owned by Sony Ericsson. At the end of 2008, the development of THE UIQ platform was prekraŝenahttp www.esato.com/news/article.php/id=1811 End of UIQ. Series 60 is the primary platform for smartphones, Nokia, Samsung, Siemens is also licensed and LG. Designed for devices with phone keyboard (with a short set of buttons). Series 80 platform, also developed by Nokia, for devices with full-size keyboard (currently the development of this branch of the Symbian OS suspended in connection with the improvement of Series 60 devices of this type). FOMA (Freedom of Mobile Access). Distributed in Japan. Is the largest cellular operator NTT DoCoMo on the order of gadgets on FOMA produce company Mitsubishi, Fujitsu, Sony Ericsson and Sharp. In addition there are several stand-alone devices that use proprietary modifications to Symbian OS. These include Nokia smartphones, Nokia 7700 7710 (Series 90) and SGH L870. History In 1998 the company Ericsson, Nokia, Motorola and Psion, Symbian Ltd was founded. In 1999 the company produced the Psion EPOC Release 5 operating system, the second name Symbian OS v5. It has been used Psion Series 5mx, Psion Series 7, Revo, Psion Netbook, Psion netPad, Ericsson MC218. In 2000 a operating system EPOC5u (Symbian OS v5, u = Unicode). The first Smartphone with its use became Ericsson R380.00 per person per. Symbian OS v6.0 or V6.1 (sometimes called ER6). The first full-fledged Symbian-Smartphone, Nokia 9210, worked for Symbian OS v6.0. In 2003 the light appeared Symbian OS v7.0 and v7.0 0s. The system supported platform UIQ (Sony Ericsson P800, P900, P910, Motorola A925, A1000), Series 80 (Nokia 9300 and 9500) Series 60 (Nokia 6600) and FOMA. In October 2003, Motorola has withdrawn from the Consortium, a Nokia company selling its share and Psion. In 2004, the company sold its stake in Psion, Symbian. In 2004 the first virus for Symbian operating system — the Cabir worm able to send yourself, via Bluetooth. Symbian OS V8.0 also appeared in 2004, a feature that was a choice between two different nuclei (EKA1 or EKA2). EKA2 was not used until SymbianOS v8 .1b. Symbian OS v8.1 — enhanced version 8.0 c support EKA1 kernel and EKA2. In 2004 came out Symbian OS v9. This version has been discontinued use of kernel EKA1. However, the first phone that uses the new operating system, appeared on the market only in early 2006. In early 2005, a Symbian OS v9.1. In the first quarter of 2006 was Symbian OS v9.2 Bluetooth 2.0 and OMA Device Management. 12 July 2006, the official date of the next version of Symbian OS v9. Different support HSDPA and Vietnamese. 16 November 2006 was sold 100 million smart phones running the Symbian OS. Symbian OS v9.4 appeared in March 2007. Of innovation is the power reduction by 20-30%, reduced to 75% of the time application launcher, improved support for VoIP, as well as the support of digital television (DVB-H, ISDB-T). 24 June 2008-the 10th anniversary of Symbian Ltd. announced a new free Symbian. December 2, 2008, Nokia announced the completion of the acquisition of shares of the vendor FOR Symbian. Employees will become members of the Symbian Nokia on 1 February 2009. In 2009 the S60 On Symbian Customer Operations has been ported to Symbian OS S60 platform for x 86 processors. As a test PC system based on Intel Atom. 11 November 2009 Samsung announced that from 2010 refuses to use Symbian, and along with Android and Windows Mobile will use THE OS native Samsung Bada. refuses to Symbian OS for its Bada 4 February 2010 Symbian Foundation announced that Symbian OS is fully open (Open Source) and free (Freeware) Symbian Operating System, Now Open Source and Free 27 April 2010 Nokia officially presented its Smartphone Nokia N8, which works on the new operating system Symbian ^ 3. Also announced Nokia N8 would be the last machine n-series running on Symbian Nokia N8 becomes latest N-series phone BB5 25 September 2010 Sony Ericsson announced the cessation of the use of the Symbian to concentrate on producing devices running Android. Sony Ericsson refuses release of Symbian-smartphones 1 October 2010 Samsung ceases to support Symbian and proceeds to use Android Phone, Windows 7 and the Samsung Bada. stops supporting SymbianSamsung ceases support Symbian — News (nixp. ru) StatistikaSootnošen smartphones with various operating systems. February 2010. Platform 4 m2 2009 4 m2 2008 4 m2 2007.3 m2 2006.3 m2 2005. 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