The Symbian Foundation says the software that powers the most smartphones in the world is being made largely available for free for anyone to use. The foundation was set up in 2008 after Nokia Corp., ...

Symbian has been somewhat of a sleeper OS in the United States, yet the company shines in European markets as a PDA pioneer. Symbian isn't limited to being just another PDA OS, however; it's now ...

Do you remember Nokia phones, with their Symbian OS? Dead and gone, you might think, but even they have dedicated enthusiasts here in 2026. Some of them have gone so far as to produce a new ROM for ...

Nokia has brought Symbian back in-house, little over two years after it released the mobile platform to the wider industry. On Monday, the Symbian Foundation — established in 2008 to govern the ...

In the largest migration from a proprietary to an open source model ever, the most popular OS for mobile phones (over 330 million phones) in the world is now open source. The Symbian mobile OS which ...

This summer the veteran Symbian platform, which started life back when handhelds weren’t phones but PDAs, will quietly pass into development history. Or at least its primary supporter over the years — ...

Nokia’s S60 Symbian phone series has a special place in my heart. The Nokia 6600 introduced me to the world of smartphones and fostered my curiosity about smartphones, hardware, and technology. Below ...

Will this be the year of Android, Symbian or LiMo? With Google's mobile platform, Android, set to have a "very, very strong year," according to Chief Executive Eric Schmidt , other open-source mobile ...

In all the delightful sentiments about renewals and resolutions, the start of 2014 is also the scene of a smartphone goodbye that deserves more than the whimper it has received. While the handsets are ...

Symbian, the world's dominant but seriously challenged operating system for smart phones, on Thursday announced its take on application distribution--the Symbian Horizon application-publishing ...