This summer the veteran Symbian platform, which started life back when handhelds weren’t phones but PDAs, will quietly pass into development history. Or at least its primary supporter over the y ...

See About archive blog posts. Google’s Android has surpassed Nokia’s Symbian as the top smart phone operating system worldwide. The shift is a big one -- Symbian has been the leading smart ...

Symbian, which powers most of Nokia's phones, has been shipped in more than 330 million devices worldwide. But in the last few years, Symbian has seen more than its fair share of changes. In 2008 ...

Say hello to Symbian, an open source mobile OS that's nearly a decade old. More than 300 million devices worldwide run Symbian. Some 41 percent of smartphones have Symbian on them. Despite its ...

It may be sliding into obscurity today, but Symbian was for many years in the mid-to-late 2000s a huge success. For most of the last decade, Symbian shifted millions of units (and still does ...

Mostly dead, as Miracle Max would say, means slightly alive, and while the big guns have left the building, there are still countless Symbian handsets still out there, still in service ...

This week, Finnish smartphone creator Nokia announced that it had shipped its final handset running the Symbian operating system. As the last company in the world building phones using the Symbian ...

Will this be the year of Android, Symbian or LiMo? With Google's mobile platform, Android, set to have a "very, very strong year," according to Chief Executive Eric Schmidt , other open-source ...

Yet, this type of flexibility isn’t for everybody — many people will find it easier and more satisfying to buy devices based on other, less-open platforms such as the Symbian OS and Windows ...

Nigel Clifford is chief executive of mobile OS maker Symbian, the market leader in the smartphone operating-system space. The 49-year-old chief executive, a Cambridge University graduate who also ...

Symbian on Tuesday released its second quarter financial data. The Nokia-owned company said that it bested last year’s sales mark with 19.6 million units sold. That may seem high, but over the ...

Symbian has completed the process of open sourcing its entire code base, in advance of its June deadline. While the release is ahead of schedule, the first phones — expected to be out early next ...