SYMBIAN
Introduction
This is the creators and developers of what we all know Symbian operating systems for mobile phones which are now under the category of world’s leading company in the task it performs.
Located in the middle of London city, U.K. , it is the software license company which provides the trusted and advance supply of standard operating system, called: The Symbian OS, for data enabled mobile phones.
History of establishment
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Symbian Operating System
A operating system, specially designed for mobile devices, includes different user interface tools which are designed by Symbian ltd. It is a descendant of Psion’s EPOC and runs exclusively on ARM Processors.
All operating systems launched by Symbian:
1. Psion
Founded by David Potter in 1980
2. EPOC16
Also known as SIBO launched in 1991 and lasted till 1998.
3. Symbian OS V6.0 and 6.1
It included the first Symbian operating phone, Nokia 9210 communicator, and was released in June 2001.It supported Bluetooth.
4. Symbian OS v7.0 and 7.0s
This version of Symbian OS was supported by all mobile companies, right from Sony Ericsson, Nokia, Motorola and many more. Symbian OS 7.0s was a version of 7.0 special adapted to have greater backwards compatibility with Symbian OS 6.x, partly for compatibility between the Communicator 9500 and its predecessor the Communicator 9210
5 Symbian OS v9.5
Announced in March 2007, it provides the concept of demand paging which is available from v9.3 onwards. Applications should launch up to 75% faster. Native support for mobile digital television broadcasts in DVB-H and ISDB-T formats and also location services. Additionally, SQL support is provided by SQLite. Not currently on any device in the user market. As of Q2 2008, OS 9.3 has just entered new devices.
Universality of the software
The software supports a wide range of application ranging from GPRS, to Bluetooth, to java and pc synchronization.
World’s first phone supported By Symbian
The first mobile phone supported by Symbian was the Nokia 9210, a communicator phone launched in 2001.more than a billion of phones supported by Symbian are reached and used throughout the world last year, i.e. 2007, including millions of smarphones.
The near expected future
Through the demand of the smartphone and Symbian OS included, in the near future, most of the phone will have the GPS inbuilt and will help in the Location based search type, example, and “camera with GPS”. Some of the devices featuring these application are now already been launched in some parts of the world and are about in quite a large demand from the costumers.
Carrier at Symbian
Some of the world's brightest, most creative people work at Symbian, the world's leading smartphone operating system. Positioned at the heart of the wireless industry, Symbian offers exciting and stimulating roles both locally and internationally for those eager to play an active part in developing our OS.
While working at Symbian can be technically demanding; we think few other companies bring together so many diverse, disciplined people in such an informal and relaxed, yet highly productive environment.
Symbian's defining goal is to bring the power of the Symbian smartphone into the hands of everyone. Symbian OS enables leading mobile phone manufacturers to bring feature-rich and truly differentiated mobile phones to market. If want to be a part of this world, our careers website has all the information you need to secure your perfect job at Symbian
