Do you remember Nokia phones, with their Symbian OS? Dead and gone, you might think, but even they have dedicated enthusiasts here in 2026. Some of them have gone so far as to produce a new ROM for ...

Symbian has been somewhat of a sleeper OS in the United States, yet the company shines in European markets as a PDA pioneer. Symbian isn't limited to being just another PDA OS, however; it's now ...

Symbian will continue to be a key component of Nokia's mobile strategy, with the potential to help the Finnish handset maker drive the growing smartphone segment of its mobile portfolio, according to ...

In the largest migration from a proprietary to an open source model ever, the most popular OS for mobile phones (over 330 million phones) in the world is now open source. The Symbian mobile OS which ...

In all the delightful sentiments about renewals and resolutions, the start of 2014 is also the scene of a smartphone goodbye that deserves more than the whimper it has received. While the handsets are ...

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 years — ...

The Symbian mobile operating system is getting a second life as the Symbian Foundation makes the smartphone platform open source. The lifeline will revitalize the platform, and has benefits for Nokia, ...

We're about to see what full-blown competition for the future of the computing industry looks like when multiple players get a shot to make an impact. The next great operating systems wars are about ...

Symbian, the world's dominant but seriously challenged operating system for smart phones, on Thursday announced its take on application distribution--the Symbian Horizon application-publishing ...

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 mobile ...

Finland’s Nokia is in the midst of switching over to Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform, but since the first devices aren’t due to ship until the end of this year—and won’t start shipping in earnest ...