The group behind the world's most popular smartphone operating system - Symbian - is giving away "billions of dollars" worth of code for free. The Symbian Foundation's announced that it would make its ...

Symbian, the mobile operating system that's huge in Europe but an afterthought elsewhere, has received a boost from its friends at home. Symbian has been declared "The Embedded Operating System for ...

Will the last one to leave please turn out the valot? This week, Finnish smartphone creator Nokia announced that it had shipped its final handset running the Symbian operating system. As the last ...

Samsung Electronics said Monday that it's licensed the Symbian operating system for use in future wireless devices including "smart phones." The licensing agreement gives Symbian more momentum in its ...

We're about to see what full-blown competition for the future of the computing industry looks like when multiple players get a shot to make an impact. The next great operating systems wars are about ...

Symbian, whose operating system is best known for driving sophisticated wireless "communicators", is to make low-end, mass-market mobile phones more central to its strategy. The company tends to keep ...

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 Nokia, ...

Topping off a week full of touch-screen smartphone news from Apple, Samsung and Nokia, Symbian today released a short video demonstrating some of the features and aesthetics of their touch-based ...

My first touch screen phone was an old Nokia 5233, which was pretty crude compared with today’s handsets. Never the less, it was Nokia’s Symbian OS which first wowed me as I swiped my way through the ...