About Symbian OS

Symbian operating system is the operating system, designed for mobile devices. Nokia N95 8GB also using the same operating system whose version is Symbian OS 9.2, S60 rel. 3.1. All the data-enabled Nokia mobile phone using the Symbian operating system, with associated libraries, user interface frameworks and reference implementations of common tools, produced by Symbian Ltd.

Symbian is currently owned by many companies including Nokia, Ericsson, Sony Ericsson, Panasonic, Siemens AG and Samsung and among them major share are held with Nokia.

The three design rules which Symbian use to built Symbian operating system are time of the user is important, integrity and security of user data, and the efficient utilization of resources as all resources are scarce. For hardware point of view Symbian operating system works on ARM (Advanced RISC Machines), and uses low power battery-based devices. Symbian also uses the object oriented design approach, MVC.

Symbian OS provides various types of services to run various application software. Symbian uses a communication protocol so email software interacts with mobile phone and download email messages to your phone inbox.

Symbian has large markets in smart phones category. One thing which is still to be dealt is the virus which can be found in phones who are Bluetooth enabled. Symbian in its latest version installed the virus protection so that it could not cost the loss of data to the user.

There are various benefits of Symbian operating system

- You can download wide range applications through internet for your mobile phone.
- Application generally developed using programming languages like C++ and Java
- Implements industry standard protocols and services.
- There are various connectivity option like GSM, GPRS, CDMA, WCDMA, WiFi and Bluetooth.