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Symbian Operating System: A Short Introduction

Symbian is an operating system designed for smartphones that provides an open application environment. It is owned by Nokia and licensed by other major phone makers. Key characteristics include integrated telephony, messaging, open applications, standards compliance, multitasking, robustness, and a flexible user interface. Applications are written using C++ SDKs and IDEs, targeting different phone interfaces like numeric pads, touchscreens, and full keyboards.

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Symbian Operating System: A Short Introduction

Symbian is an operating system designed for smartphones that provides an open application environment. It is owned by Nokia and licensed by other major phone makers. Key characteristics include integrated telephony, messaging, open applications, standards compliance, multitasking, robustness, and a flexible user interface. Applications are written using C++ SDKs and IDEs, targeting different phone interfaces like numeric pads, touchscreens, and full keyboards.

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Lappeenranta University of Technology Department of Information Technology Lappeenranta, Finland

Symbian Operating System


A Short Introduction
Author:
Supervisors:

Alexander Kanavin
Antti Sorvari (Nokia), Jan Voracek (LUT)

Lappeenranta, November 2003

Main facts

Designed to be used on higher-end mobile phones (also known as smartphones) Open application environment Owned and licensed by most major phone makers

Owners

Licensees

Key characteristics

integrated multimode mobile telephony messaging open application environment standards and interoperability multi-tasking robustness flexible user interface design

Phones with numeric keypad


Joystick-navigated Soft keys Simple widgets

Phones with touch screens


Pen-based navigation Multimedia and browsing

Phones with full keyboards


Editing information Reviewing business data

Writing applications

SDK: emulator, libraries and target compiler Subset of C++ IDEs: Microsoft, Borland, Metrowerks Future: higher-level languages

Writing applications: personal experience


C++ Full IDE services: debugging etc Difficulty of testing on real devices Fast applications, small memory footprint

Questions?

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