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History of Symbian

Symbian is an Operating System aimed at wireless devices to provide enhanced usability and features on mobile devices.

Symbian is also an independent company which started in 1998 partly owned by Ericsson, Nokia, Motorola and Psion. I was not until two years later the first symbian phone, the Ericsson R380 handset went on sale to the general public.

In 2001 the first GPRS Symbian Handset phone was released called the Nokia 7650 (pictured top right). The next year really sees a lift off in the Symbian lift off. In 2002 the first 3G Symbian Operating system was released only for it a year later to be implemented on the first handset to inherit this technology, the Nokia 6600 (pictured bottom right). After this point many new handsets became available making Symbian one of the leading wireless operating systems in the mobile industry.

Symbian is an independent company whose head quarters are in the United Kingdom and offices in Sweden, USA, Japan, India and other offices in the United Kingdom.

Nokia 7650

Nokia 6600

History of Symbian

Where did Symbian originate from and by? When did it become available?

Symbian Operating System

The technical spefications and its features. What are the main differences between old mobile OS's and Symbian.

Symbian Applications

What are symbian applications and what do they enable your mobile to do.

[New] LexLook! for UIQ 3.x
LexLook! dictionary by Xenodium is a simple yet effective way of looking words up on your mobile phone. Its extensive database boasts over a million words, including verbs, adjectives, nouns, historical figures, popular characters, and even some of those naughty words. Searching is quick and easy, and results may be sent to friends via sms, email, or bluetooth.

[New] StopCall for S60 3rd Edition
StopCall by ariek44 is a freeware application written in Python that automatically filters and rejects unwanted phone calls. Just add someone's phone to the list and the call will be instantly rejected so that it doesn't disturb you and the caller will hear a busy tone.

[Upd] Hi-N-Bye Final for S60 3rd Edition
Final, commercial version of Hi-N-Bye is now available. Hi-N-Bye by KEYnetik is an application for accelerometer-enabled phones like the N95, N82 or the new E66. It uses the sensor embedded into your phone to translate user hand gestures into simple, intuitive and precise commands. Features include: * Answer phone calls with a simple pick-up gesture * End phone calls with a simple hang-up gesture * Turn the loudspeaker ON/OFF with user set gesture * Swap between two calls with user set gesture.

[New] SecureMe for S60 3rd Edition
A mobile device is lost or stolen literally every single second. With SecureMe from Killer Mobile, you can rest assured that your device is safe and secure. SecureMe will automatically lock the device (both screen and keyboard) on any unauthorized SIM change. This renders the device completely useless to the thief or finder of your device. SecureMe also features remote SMS commands which can allow you to lock the device down remotely, hide or delete information such as contacts, SMS, photos, videos and more. You can even be informed of the SIM change along with the SIM details to help locate the thief, as well as any device activity via SMS to up to three secondary numbers of your choosing.

[New] JoikuSpot Premium for S60 3rd Edition
Award winning JoikuSpot software turns your mobile phone instantly to a personal and secure WLAN (Wi-Fi) HotSpot. JoikuSpot installs direct to your mobile phone. You can use your mobile phone as a Wi-Fi internet access point for high speed 3G internet connection. You can share your mobile phone's 3G internet connection securely with WLAN devices such as laptops, iPods, iTouch, EeePCs and internet tablets.

[New] Efficasoft GPS Utilities for S60 3rd Edition
Efficasoft GPS Utilities is a GPS software providing digital compass, speedometer with alarm, real-time map navigation and more. Features include: * Designed GPS information overview. * Free image map real-time navigation. * "Go To" function * World map view navigation with free-scale zooming. * Digital speedometer & customizable speed alarms. * Two-mode digital compass with dest. information display. * Customizable track logger & trip statistics. * Waypoint & POI Manager + 30+ pre-defined POI icons. * Night view mode, fast 0~7 view switch. * Advanced smooth animation effects. * Advanced "5 Sec. Average" and "Kalman Filter" processors for high precision navigation.

[New] AlcohoLite for S60 3rd Edition
AlcohoLite by Yeni Mobile is a useful tool to calculate on your mobile phone your blood alcohol content. Determine your BAC using Alcoholite before or after consuming alcohol, check if you can drive a car. Use AlcohoLite before or after party, to control your alcohol consumption.

[New] AutoSisInstaller for S60 3rd Edition
AutoSisInstaller by TongRen automatically installs multiple SIS files. The program is especially useful if you buy a new phone or if you have just updated the firmware and lost installed applications. Just copy everything you need to install to E:\ThinkChange\ and press "Start".

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