Mr. Couch Potato Man

Simbian is the open mobile operating system. But first and foremost, Symbian (yeah, not Simbian)is a software licensing company which developed the widely used and mobile phone operation system which is also called Simbian.

Currently, it is believed that Symbian is licensed by the world’s leading mobile phone manufacturers. There are a couple of competitors for simbian that are stating to make a name on the mobile phone technology. Amongst the big name are Windows Mobile (both Pocket PC and SmartPhone) from Microsoft, Palm OS, the Motorola Java, O2 proprietary, the OS for Gphone, linux Mobile phone OS and there are probably others out there.

Anyway, back to Simbian Ltd. and Simbian Operation System. It (the OS) comes from Psion’s EPOC and runs exclusively on ARM processors.

Here’s a list of phone companies that uses the Simbian Operation System:

• Nokia
• Ericsson
• Sony-Ericsson
• Pansonic
• Siemens
• Samsung

Yep, O2, HP, HTC and similar others are run by Microsofts’ Windows Mobile.

Like mentioned before, the simbian OS came from EPOC ( “Electronic Piece Of Cheese”?). Here’s the history of the OS by listing:

* Psion
* EPOC16
* EPOC OS Releases 1–3
* EPOC Release 4
* EPOC Release 5 a.k.a. Symbian OS 5
* ER5u
* Symbian OS v6.0 and 6.1
* Symbian OS 7.0 and 7.0s
* 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 9.5

For more information about Symbian Ltd and Simbian operating system, check out their Wikipedia page !

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