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Meteor (Symbian Series 60)
Downloads Space breakout for Symbian Series 60 smartphones. You have to destroy bricks, saving your meteor from enemy missiles and getting as much power-ups as possible. Game features: 90 levels, smart graphics, animations and effects, addictive gameplay...
[February 16, 2006, 23:07]
Symbian OS upgrade aims at mass market
News UK-based mobile software maker Symbian has introduced the next generation of its smartphone operating system, version 8.0, with tweaks aimed at extending the Symbian OS into lower-cost handsets. The new OS will arrive with an expanded offering from...
[February 25, 2004, 11:50]
Symbian hits back over security
News Mobile phone operating-system maker Symbian has reacted to growing media and security industry concern about the threat of mobile phone viruses, stating categorically that users are in no danger of getting a virus on their handset.
[September 6, 2005, 10:40]
Symbian upbeat as shipments treble
News Smartphone operating system firm Symbian has seen shipments of handsets using its operating system triple over the last year. The second quarter of this year saw 7.8 million handsets shipped with the Symbian operating system, up from 2.4 million in...
[August 19, 2005, 10:00]
Symbian smartphones get email, photo services
News Symbian OS-based smartphones are getting two new wireless services: an always-on email offering for personal and corporate customers, and a photo-sharing service aimed at consumers. The new offerings underscore the diversity of the market targeted...
[June 16, 2003, 15:39]
Symbian shipments rise amid doubts over future
News Symbian, the UK mobile-phone software maker, said on Monday that more than two million Symbian-powered handsets shipped worldwide in the fourth quarter of 2003, with the total for the year reaching 6.67 million, which is more than three times 2002...
[February 23, 2004, 11:10]
Symbian: Android is not open, it's a marketing label
News Google and the Symbian Foundation — which drive different 'open' OS platforms — have taken side-swipes at each other. Google jumped into the mobile world just over two years ago with the public announcement of its mobile OS platform Android, while...
[February 24, 2009, 8:41]
Symbian integrates push-email support
News Symbian has announced an updated version of its operating system for mobile devices, which promises better memory usage and integrated push email support. The company also claims that Symbian OS 9.5 will now be more affordable, meaning...
[March 26, 2007, 13:00]
Symbian, GPL tension and 'bright lines'
Blog One of the big questions about Symbian going open source has been that of what is going to happen to the third-party, proprietary code that exists within Symbian today. I've covered this previously here, in a blog post where Symbian research chief...
[October 23, 2008, 17:14]
Symbian: Mobile Linux 'fragmentation city'
News Enterprises will not adopt mobile Linux because it is too fragmented, according to Symbian's head of enterprise business market development. Speaking at the Mobility Summit in London on Monday, Andrew Moran said that mobile Linux was "fragmentation...
[July 2, 2007, 16:46]
Symbian signs on Samsung as it surges to No. 1 spot
News Symbian said on Monday that it has signed up Samsung as the latest licensee for its smartphone operating system, just a day before Orange unveils the first smartphone based on Microsoft's competing software.
[October 21, 2002, 15:57]
Symbian aims for the mass market
News Symbian's newly crowned chief executive, Nigel Clifford, has reiterated his company's commitment to mid-tier phones and promised to smarten up the market as a whole. Speaking on Tuesday at the Smartphone Show, Clifford said Symbian's chief ambition...
[October 12, 2005, 10:20]
Symbian - the whiff of sour grapes?
Blog I've held back until now from writing about Symbian's reaction to Google's Android platform, because.well.it's a bit old-hat really. Symbian certainly has reason to celebrate at the moment over pretty positive results which stem largely from a cut...
[November 7, 2007, 12:00]
Symbian show hints at future user interface
News This week saw the Symbian Exchange and Exposition (SEE 2009) take place in London. The show was unusual in that the Symbian operating system, best known for being the powerhouse behind Nokia's smartphones, is currently being open-sourced and is...
[October 30, 2009, 16:22]
Symbian boosts mobile connection management
News Symbian on Tuesday announced several enhancements to its mobile platform, including technology to let mobile phones switch seamlessly between different kinds of internet connections. FreeWay, which becomes standard as of Symbian v9.5, is a new...
[October 16, 2007, 13:13]
Symbian SEE & the salmiak salted liquorice
Blog It’s tough to add much to the already very extensive ZDNetUK report on the Symbian Exchange and Exhibition (SEE), but for the record I was there too and I had some interesting meetings with Symbian employees, partners and other IT press too.
[October 28, 2009, 12:28]
Symbian goes for the suits
News Symbian, the smartphone operating system developer, is to revamp its enterprise strategy at its annual developer conference beginning on Tuesday. The company is also launching an open-source software development tool and a new partner programme...
[April 28, 2003, 16:34]
Symbian OS: Designing Bluetooth Applications in C++
White Papers Symbian OS (from Symbian OS v6.1 onwards) provides software support for Bluetooth. Third-party application developers can create their own applications using public APIs. Applications range from simple chat applications to exciting multiplayer games.
[November 15, 2005, 0:00]
Symbian sets timetable for OS releases
News The Symbian Foundation committed itself to an aggressive operating release schedule on Friday, promising a new version of the open-source OS every six months for the next few years. Symbian is the world's most widely used smartphone operating...
[March 16, 2009, 11:05]
Symbian keen to ignite USB development interest
Blog Well, Symbian’s Jezar Wakefield who is a senior software engineer by trade has been mailing me to say that the company is trying to tell us that it is, “turning USB technology on its head,” and wants it to feature on the current developer radar...
[December 1, 2008, 10:27]
