2. Symbian OS is one of Nokia’s mobile
operating system for mobile device
and smartphones with associated
libraries, user interface, frameworks
and reference implementations of
common tools, originally developed
by Symbian Ltd.
3. Psion founded by David Potter in 1980 launched
the Psion Organizer, the world’s first volume-
produced handheld computer in 1984.
1997: Psion’s EPOC OS Launched(2 MB memory)
1998: Symbian consortium and Symbian OS
Independent of Psion
Ericsson, Nokia, Motorola, Psion(founders)
Panasonic, Sony Ericsson, Siemens,
Samsung(shareholders)
2000: First Symbian OS phone
Ericsson R380
4. Symbian OS runs on ~75% of all mobiles.
Nokia expects the mobile market to exceed 250
million units in 2008
82.8 million cumulative Symbian OS phone shipments
since the formation of Symbian (as of Q2 2006).
Symbian C++ gives
Maximum flexibility
Speed
5. Same Basis, different feel and look due to different at UI layer:
S 60: Smartphone with numeric keypad, “phone centric
S 80: Organizers with full keyboard, “information centric”
e.g. Nokia 9300
UIQ: mobile phone with pen input, “information centric”
e.g. Sony Ericssion P910
6. Greater range of application.
High quality games.
Better inbuilt web browser.
Connectivity is not more easier and faster.
Real Player, Smart movie player etc. sort of application are not
available with java phones.
You can install software and application of any type.
10. Frameworks and libraries
for constructing a UI
Includes the basic class
hierarchies for UI
controls
Concrete widget classes
used by UI components
Other frameworks and
utlities
Topmost layer of
Symbian OS, foundation
for variant UI
11. UI independent support for
application
Including basic application
frameworks/services
Application
class(“technology
specification”) logic
Support for specific
application
Also some applocation
engines used and extended
by licensees
Generic
Application class specific-
Messaging, browsing
Application specific – Word, Sheet
Engines vs services - evolving
12. o Extends the “base” into a fully
functional OS providing services
across a fully range of
technologies, e.g. graphics,
communications, multimedia,
etc.
o Organised by technology
domain
“Middleware” layer of
Symbian OS, full range
of servers, framework,
and libraries which
extend the base system
into a complete OS
Connectivity
Services
Multimedia &
Graphics Services
13. It includes the file Server and
User Library
Plug-In Framework which
manages all plug-in
Central Repository, DBMS
Cryptographic services
Services for a functional port
Lowest level of user-side services,
extends the OS kernel into a
useable(but minimal) system
14. Bootstraps the physical or emulated
device
Provides physical and logical device
drivers and other hardware
abstraction
Create and manages the
fundamental OS kernel abstractions
Processes, memory
management, scheduling
Kernel layer, contains the OS kernel itself,
device drivers, and similar low-level
components
15. Poor internet performance
Failure to gain advantage from being
open-source
The unsatisfactory app-availability
Developers started to hate Symbian
The boring user-interface (UI)
Symbian did’t target the smartphone
market.
The unmanageable network of Symbian
partners