Symbian

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Symbian
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Symbian

• Symbian is software company, that develops and
  supplies an operating system for mobile phones
  Symbian OS
• Symbian was established in 1998 by Nokia,
  Ericsson, Motorola and Psion
• Symbian is now (2005) owned by
• Nokia 47,9
• Ericsson 15,6
• SonyEricsson 13,1
• Panasonic 10,5
• Siemens 8,4
• Samsung 4,5

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Symbian OS

• in 2000 Ericsson published the first Symbian OS
  phone R380
• following companies have licensied Symbian OS
• Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Panasonic, Motorola
• Fujitsu, Siemens, Sendo, BenQ
• Samsung, Lenovo, Sharp, Arima, LG Electronics,
  Mitshubishi
• about 60 phone models and over 40 million phones
  is provided with Symbian OS (august 2005)

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Symbian OS architecture