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)