The Symbian OS platform is formed of two components: one being the microkernel-based operating system with its associated libraries, and the other being the user interface (as middleware), which provides the graphical shell atop the OS. It was notably not as popular in North America. As a pioneer that established the smartphone industry, it was the most popular smartphone OS on a worldwide average until the end of 2010-at a time when smartphones were in limited use-when it was overtaken by iOS and Android. It was also prevalent in Japan by brands including Fujitsu, Sharp and Mitsubishi. Symbian was used by many major mobile phone brands, like Samsung, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, and above all by Nokia.

Symbian OS is a descendant of Psion's EPOC, and was released exclusively on ARM processors, although an unreleased x86 port existed. Symbian was originally developed as a proprietary software OS for PDAs in 1998 by the Symbian Ltd. Symbian is a discontinued mobile operating system (OS) and computing platform designed for smartphones. Proprietary software, previously licensed under EPL Nokia Belle Feature Pack 2 / 2 October 2012 Proprietary software, previously Free software (2010–11)ĥ June 1997 24 years ago ( ) (as EPOC32) Home screen of Nokia Belle Feature Pack 2 (last version of Symbian)Īccenture on behalf of Nokia (2011–13)

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