Rabu, 29 Oktober 2008

symbianOS

Symbian OS is an open operating system, designed for mobile devices, with associated libraries, user interface frameworks and reference implementations of common tools, produced by Symbian Ltd. It is a descendant of Psion's EPOC and runs exclusively on ARM processors.

On 24 June 1998, Symbian Ltd. was formed as a partnership between Ericsson, Nokia, Motorola and Psion, to exploit the convergence between PDAs and mobile phones. Symbian was previously owned by Nokia (56.3%), Ericsson (15.6%), Sony Ericsson (13.1%), Panasonic (10.5%) and Samsung (4.5%). Ten years to the day later, on 24 June 2008, Nokia announced that they intended to acquire all shares that they did not already own.[1] The acquisition was of €264 million, or $410 million.[2]

On 24 June 2008 the Symbian Foundation was announced with the aim to "provide royalty-free software and accelerate innovation".[3]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbian_OS#Symbian_OS_v6.0_and_6.1