While the big guns have left the building, there are still countless Symbian handsets still out there, still in service, and still available for the dedicated developer to reach out and market to.

The Symbian platform, he says, is at the top of its game. Over 200 million Symbian-based devices have been sold, and 77 million of those were in the last year alone.

Android’s ascension is particularly notable because of how quick it has risen to the top of the smart phone software heap. Google’s first Android operating system release was in October 2008.

Symbian's history is a long one, for the tech industry. The company was established a decade ago by Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia and Psion, and by 2006 there were 100 million Symbian phones in the ...

Symbian 4 (S^4) will be complete in the third quarter of the year, with handsets appearing in the first half of 2011. Williams said 466 new features and functionalities were currently under ...

Symbian on Tuesday released its second quarter financial data. The Nokia-owned company said that it bested last year's sales mark with 19.6 million units sold. That may seem high, but over the ...

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 ...

My new Symbian-based phone was always as bad as ever, sometimes worse. For the past year I’ve had a Nokia E71, which runs Symbian S60. On a practical level I can’t fault the E71.

Symbian is now officially dead, Nokia confirmed today. In the company's earnings announcement that came out a little while ago, Nokia confirmed that the 808 PureView, released last year, was the ...

The Symbian OS has been around for aeons and is available on a wide range of devices. With this experience comes a wealth of shortcuts and handy tricks which we've compiled for easy access.

The Symbian Foundation has liberated the source code of the Symbian platform's EKA2 microkernel. The code base is now available under the terms of the open source Eclipse Public License (EPL).

Microsoft and Nokia announced a partnership Friday that will pair Microsoft’s less-than-successful Windows Phone 7 OS with Nokia’s flagging handset business. The move is a dramatic shift for ...