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Symbian Dead

Symbian
KindOperating system
Appeared1997
Ended2013
StatusDead
CreatorPsion → Symbian Ltd / Nokia
FamilyIndependent
PlatformARM
Also known asEPOC32
Sourceen.wikipedia.org ↗

The smartphone OS of the 2000s — half a billion Nokia handsets; killed by the iPhone's existence and a Microsoft partnership.

Symbian OS (1997) — the EPOC32 descendant from the Psion-Symbian JV (Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola, Psion) — ran the smartphone market from 2000 to 2010: 300 million devices, the best-selling smartphone OS ever at its peak.\n\nNokia bought it outright in 2008, open-sourced it as the Symbian Foundation (2009), then killed it for Windows Phone in 2011 — the largest OS write-off in history.

Sources

  1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbian