Symbian OS provides a secure, reliable operating system for mobile information devices. Being specifically designed for mobile devices, with low power consumption and small memory footprint, Symbian provides a stable platform for the telecommunications industry and technologies such as GPRS, Bluetooth, SyncML, and ultimately 3G. Symbian OS is not only an operating system but actually a full software and communications platform. As an open platform, virtually anybody can develop software for Symbian-powered devices. This means more applications to choose from, and a larger market for developers.

The S60 platform is a device software product available for licensing by device manufacturers. It enables device manufacturers to create application-driven devices that provide users with a rich mobile experience. Easy to use, interoperable with a wide range of standards, and designed to take advantage of the new mobile services, devices based on the S60 platform are part of a larger unified applications market that everyone can enjoy. Nokia offers a variety of devices using the S60 platform.

The range of devices running the S60 platform illustrates the robustness of the platform, with the same base powering devices for imaging, business applications, and high-resolution, multi-player gaming. As of February 2006, 36 S60 based smartphones had been launched. Nokia expects the smartphone market to exceed 250 million units in 2008.

The Symbian OS is also used in the Series 80 platform. The Nokia 9500 Communicator, like other members of the communicator family, is a rational, efficient business tool. Seamlessly integrated into the corporate IT systems, the communicator facilitates decision-making, information transfer, customer response, and logistics at a cost that appeals to corporations and individual users. E-mail and a suite of office applications are complemented by content and applications provided by ISPs and portal operators. The communicator is the most powerful platform, with optimum size-ergonomics ratio.

Symbian OS is also being used in the Nokia 7710 widescreen multimedia smartphone. With a pen input user interface, a horizontal screen and an optional television tuner, the Nokia 7710 brings mobile multimedia to a new level.

Source : Nokia

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