Symbian Ltd. is a software development and licensing company established in June 1998, headquartered in the UK. It is owned by Ericsson, Nokia, Matsushita (Panasonic), Siemens, Sony Ericsson and Samsung. Software engineering (SE) is the profession concerned with specifying, designing, developing and maintaining software applications by applying technologies and practices from computer science, project management, and other fields. ... 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Ericsson () is a Swedish telecommunications equipment manufacturer, founded in 1876 as a telegraph equipment repair shop by Lars Magnus Ericsson. ... Nokia Corporation (NYSE: NOK) is one of the worlds largest telecommunications equipment manufacturers. ... Logo for the Panasonic brand Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. ... Panasonic is principal sponsor of the Toyota F1 team Panasonic is a brand used by Matsushita, a Japanese company, to market its products throughout the world. ... Siemens AG (NYSE: SI) is the worlds largest electronics company. ... Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB (Sony Ericsson) is a joint venture established in 2001 by the Japanese consumer electronics company Sony Corporation and the Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson, to make mobile phones. ... The Samsung Group is one of the largest electronics companies in the world. ...

The company's founder shareholders were Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola. Motorola sold its stake in the company to Psion and Nokia in September 2003. Psion's stake was bought by Nokia, Panasonic, Siemens AG and Sony Ericsson in July 2004. Psion PLC is the British company mostly known for developing the pioneering Psion Organiser as well as a whole range of more advanced, clamshell-design Personal Digital Assistants: Psion 3 Psion Siena Psion 5 Psion 7 Psion Netbook, Netbook Pro Psion Revo All these PDAs have a small keyboard, which... Ericsson () is a Swedish telecommunications equipment manufacturer, founded in 1876 as a telegraph equipment repair shop by Lars Magnus Ericsson. ... Motorola (NYSE: MOT) (TYO: 6686) started as Galvin Manufacturing Corporation in 1928. ... September is the ninth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of four Gregorian months with the length of 30 days. ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... July is the seventh month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Symbian develops and licenses Symbian OS, an operating system for advanced 2.5G and 3G mobile phones. User interface layers are provided by third parties. These include Series 60 and Series 80 from Nokia, and UIQ from UIQ Technologies. Symbian OS is an operating system with associated libraries, user interface frameworks and reference implementations of common tools, produced by Symbian Ltd. ... In computing, an operating system (OS) is the system software responsible for the direct control and management of hardware and basic system operations. ... 2. ... 3G (or 3-G) is short for third-generation mobile telephone technology. ... The user interface is the part of a system exposed to users. ... This article or section should be merged with Nokia Series 60 Series 60 is a user interface for mobile phones that is developed and marketed by Nokia. ... A screenshot of UIQ 3. ...

Current licensees of Symbian's operating system are Arima, BenQ, Fujitsu, Motorola, Nokia, Panasonic, Samsung, Sendo, Siemens and Sony Ericsson. Arima can refer to - Arima - a town in Trinidad and Tobago. ... BenQ (formerly known as Acer Communications & Multimedia) is a Taiwan-based industry leader in digital lifestyle devices. ... For the district in Saga, Japan, see Fujitsu, Saga. ... Sendo is a British manufactuer and supplier of mobile phones founded in 1999. ...

Much of Symbian's initial intellectual property came from the software arm of Psion PLC.

The current CEO is David Levin. Former CEO, Colly Myers, left the company in 2002 to found Issuebits, the company behind SMS information service Any Question Answered (AQA). Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is the job of having the ultimate executive responsibility or authority within an organization or corporation. ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A received SMS being announced on a Nokia phone. ... Any Question Answered (AQA) is a premium-rate SMS-based information service in the UK which is run by Issuebits Ltd, a company founded by former Symbian CEO Colly Myers. ...

See also

• Symbian OS

Symbian OS is an operating system with associated libraries, user interface frameworks and reference implementations of common tools, produced by Symbian Ltd. ...

External links

• Symbian (http://www.symbian.com)
• Symbian OS User Interfaces (http://www.symbian.com/technology/devices.html)
• Symbian OS Phones (http://www.symbian.com/phones/)
• Any Question Answered (http://www.aqa.issuebits.com/)