Symbian

Symbian is a closed source development platform and operating system for mobile devices. It supports custom software applications that can be developed by third parties, and, depending on the presence of a digital signature, it allows the applications access various system resources.

Advantages

Clean system software design
Well suited for limited system resources
Extensible architecture

Disadvantages

Fragmented UI framework for older devices

Components

EKA2 Kernel
UI Framework
OS Services Layer
Base Services Layer

Development tools

QT 4.7
QT Creator 2.0
Carbide
Python
Java ME

Versions

EPOC16
EPOC32
Symbian OS 5.0
Symbian OS 6.0
Symbian OS 6.1
Symbian OS 7.0
Symbian OS 8.0
Symbian OS 8.1
Symbian OS 9.0
Symbian OS 9.1
Symbian OS 9.2
Symbian OS 9.3
Symbian OS 9.4
Symbian^2
Symbian^3
Symbian OS 10.1 (Symbian Belle)

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