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INTRODUCTION
HISTORY
DESIGN
KEY DESIGN FEATURES
COMPETITION
STRUCTURE
SECURITY
DEVELOPING ON SYMBIAN OS
DEPLOYMENT
ADVANTAGES
DISADVANTAGES
CONCLUSION
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 Symbian OS is one of Nokia's mobile

operating system for mobile devices and
smartphones, with associated libraries, user
interface, frameworks and reference
implementations of common tools, originally
developed by Symbian Ltd.
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Organizer, the world's first volume-produced handheld computer in
1984.

In June 1998 - Symbian is established as a private independent

company and is owned by Ericsson, Nokia, Motorola and Psion.
From this point onwards has EPOC OS been called  .

In February 2004 -    is announced.

In February 2005 -    is announced.

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In 2008, the former Symbian Software Limited was acquired by

Nokia and a new independent non-profit organisation called the
Symbian Foundation was established.

The platform has been designated as the successor to Symbian

OS, following the official launch of the Symbian Foundation in April
2009.

The Symbian Platform was officially made available as open

source code in February 2010.

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 Symbian OS was created with three systems design principles in

mind:
‡ The integrity and security of user data is paramount,
‡ User time must not be wasted, and
‡ All resources are scarce.

 To best follow these principles, Symbian uses a microkernel, has

a request-and-callback approach to services, and maintains
separation between user interface and engine.

 The OS is optimised for low-power battery-based devices and for

ROM-based systems.
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availability and responsiveness.

Symbian is designed to emphasise compatibility with other

devices, especially removable media file systems.

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Symbian includes a reference user-interface called A5+A.

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Symbian OS was subject to a variety of viruses, the best known of
which is Y.

Usually these send themselves from phone to phone by

Bluetooth.

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the automatic startup from Simworks and Kaspersky Symbian
Anti-Virus applications.

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Mabir.A activates it will search for the first phone it finds, and

starts sending copies of itself to that phone.

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As of 2010, the SDK for Symbian is standard C++, using Qt. It
can be used with either 0 , or Carbide (the older IDE
previously used for Symbian development).

A phone simulator allows testing of Qt apps.

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It is also possible to develop using Symbian C++, although it is
not a standard implementation.

Prior to the release of the Qt SDK, this was the standard

development environment.
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Once developed, Symbian applications need to find a route to

customers' mobile phones.

They are packaged in 6 files which may be installed over-the-

air, via PC connect, Bluetooth or on a memory card.

An alternative is to partner with a phone manufacturer and have

the software included on the phone itself.
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Greater range of applications.
High quality games.
Better inbuilt wap browser.
Connectivity is lot more easier and faster.
Real Player, Smart movie player etc sort of
application are not available with java phones.
You can install softwares and applications of any
type
You can download big files through your phone
easily with 3G around.
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The OS is not available for PCs too.

The Sybmian OS can be easily affected by a

Virus.
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Devices based on Symbian OS accounted for 43.5% of

worldwide Smartphone sales in 2010 Q2.

Some estimates indicate that the cumulative number of

mobile devices shipped with the Symbian OS up to the end
of Q2 2010 is 385 million.
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