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C

camera phone
Two words (c.f. smartphone which is one)

central repository
Lowercase and spelt out in full, not CenRep.

cleanup
'Cleanup' is one word in Symbian OS terminology. Always use 'cleanup' unless stating that something is 'cleaned up', 'cleaning up', 'cleans up' etc.

client-server
hyphenated, not client/server

E

emulator
All lowercase. Example: Symbian OS emulator.

EPOC
Do not use. The correct usage is Symbian OS v5.

ESOCK
All uppercase, not Esock or esock.

F

feature phone
Two words, not featurephone (c.f. smartphone which is one word).

font and bitmap server
It is not the font and bitmaps server. It can also be known as FBSERV (but not as the FBSERV)

form factor
Two words, not formfactor.

K

knowledgebase
One word. Example: Symbian OS Knowledgebase.

M

mixin
One word, not mix in. Symbian class type.

P

panics
Symbian OS panics should be given in capital letters in code font.
Examples:
A USER 42 panic occurs if the same area of memory is deleted twice.
An EUSER-CBASE 71 panic occurs if an item is not popped from the cleanup stack before exiting the nested level of a TRAP handler.

platform security
Lowercase and spelt out in full, not PlatSec.

publish and subscribe
Lowercase and spelt out in full, not P&S or publish and subscribe.

S

smartphone
One word, not smart phone.

Symbian C++
Not Symbian OS c++

Symbian keywords
Class names and terminology specific to Symbian can be found here

Symbian OS
This is the only time that you can use 'OS' otherwise must be spelt out as 'operating system.'

Symbian OS versions
Symbian OS v9.x - do not leave space between 9 and the version number, v, is always lowercase.

Symbian Signed
Capitalized. Not Symbian signed. Example: My application is Symbian Signed. Not A Symbian Signed Program or Symbian Signing

Symbian smartphone
Not Symbian OS smartphone.

W

window server
Not windows server. It can also be called WSERV (but not the WSERV) See also WSERV.

WSERV
Referred to without a definite article
Example: A message is sent to WSERV not A message is sent to the WSERV.