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With no major competition in the smartphone OS then ( Palm OS and Windows Mobile were comparatively small players), Symbian reached as high as 67% of the global smartphone market share in 2006. They include S60 ( Nokia, Samsung and LG), UIQ ( Sony Ericsson and Motorola) and MOAP(S) (Japanese only such as Fujitsu, Sharp etc.).

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In June 1998, Psion Software became Symbian Ltd., a major joint venture between Psion and phone manufacturers Ericsson, Motorola, and Nokia.Īfterwards, different software platforms were created for Symbian, backed by different groups of mobile phone manufacturers. Symbian originated from EPOC32, an operating system created by Psion in the 1990s. Logo of Symbian OS until the Symbian Foundation was formed in 2008 Phones running this include the F-07F from Fujitsu and SH-07F from Sharp in 2014. NTT DoCoMo continued releasing OPP(S) (Operator Pack Symbian, successor of MOAP) devices in Japan, which still act as middleware on top of Symbian. The Nokia 808 PureView in 2012 was officially the last Symbian smartphone from Nokia.

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Although support was promised until 2016, including two major planned updates, by 2012 Nokia had mostly abandoned development and most Symbian developers had already left Accenture, and in January 2014 Nokia stopped accepting new or changed Symbian software from developers. Two months later, Nokia moved the OS to proprietary licensing, only collaborating with the Japanese OEMs and later outsourced Symbian development to Accenture. In February 2011, Nokia, by now the only remaining company still supporting Symbian outside Japan, announced that it would use Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 as its primary smartphone platform, while Symbian would be gradually wound down. The Symbian Foundation disintegrated in late 2010 and Nokia took back control of the OS development. Symbian^3 received the Anna and Belle updates in 2011.

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The transition from a proprietary operating system to a free software project is believed to be one of the largest in history. Symbian^3 was released in 2010 as the successor to S60 5th Edition, by which time it became fully free software. Symbian^2 (based on MOAP) was used by NTT DoCoMo, one of the members of the Foundation, for the Japanese market. The touchscreen-focused Symbian^1 (or S60 5th Edition) was created as a result in 2009.

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Seeking to unify the platform, S60 became the Foundation's favoured interface and UIQ stopped development.

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The non-profit Symbian Foundation was then created to make a royalty-free successor to Symbian OS. in 2004 and purchased the entire company in 2008. Nokia became the largest shareholder of Symbian Ltd. Applications of these different interfaces were not compatible with each other, despite each being built atop Symbian OS. Another interface was the MOAP(S) platform from carrier NTT DoCoMo in the Japanese market. UIQ was a competing user interface mostly used by Motorola and Sony Ericsson that focused on pen-based devices, rather than a traditional keyboard interface from S60.

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The most prominent user interface was the S60 (formerly Series 60) platform built by Nokia, first released in 2002 and powering most Nokia Symbian devices. The Symbian OS platform is formed of two components: one being the microkernel-based operating system with its associated libraries, and the other being the user interface (as middleware), which provides the graphical shell atop the OS. Proprietary software, formerly Eclipse Public Arabic (Arabic, Urdu), Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Traditional, Simplified), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (UK, US), Estonian, Finnish, French (France, Canada), Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Indian (Hindi, Tamil), Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Marathi, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish (Spain, Latin America), Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese











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