Symbian celebrates ten years of innovation
In ten years, Symbian has evolved from an embedded OS to the number one open OS in the rapidly expanding mobile phone market. Ten years of innovation and commercial success in driving the evolution of the smartphone and creating an open OS for mass-market use. From high-end to high-volume market, Symbian OS is the proven platform for a broad range of users and form factors.
Developers have been core to making this happen. Your code has helped bring Symbian OS to more than 200 million users around the world. A true open OS instils innovation - this has been core to Symbian’s success.
Mobile development starts with Symbian - with the best new technologies and applications for today’s and tomorrow’s phones, the widest choice of tools and development languages and comprehensive developer support programs.
Videos
The Symbian 10 year anniversary microsite features one-minute video clips of some of the brains behind Symbian. Here are the full-length videos:- Alastair Bradley - OS Tech Lead
- Andrew Cloke - Head of Technology Strategy and Analysis
- Arwel Hughes - Documentation Specialist
- David Harper - Technology Integration Analyst
- William Roberts - Chief Integration Engineer
- Howard Price - Senior System Architect
- Malcolm Box - Director Ecosystem Projects
- Martin Tasker - Technology Strategist
- Nadeem Wahid - Senior Software Engineer
- Douglas Feather - Senior Software Engineer
Architecture
In an article, taken from his book, 'The Symbian OS Architecture Sourcebook', Ben Morris explains how the design of Symbian OS evolved from its beginnings ten years ago, and explores the motivations that shaped it both then and today.
Ben describes how Symbian OS follows a small number of strong design principles - principles that were responses to the product ethos that was dominant when the system was first being designed and created. An ethos of: user data is sacred, user time is precious and all resources are scarce.
Read the sample chapter