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What is Symbian?

Every electronic material need some instruction.In new material like MOBILE PHONES AND PC there is special program means rule which they follow. All modern computing devices, big or small, require an Operating System, also known as an OS. The OS contains all the basic instructions that the computer needs in order to do things.

Symbian is one of those OS. mainly Nokia is running on symbian platform but samsung also launched symbian phone OMNIA HD.
Symbian is the operating system used on the Nokia 5800, on all of Nokia's smartphones, and on smartphones from many other manufacturers too such as Samsung, Sony Ericsson and LG.
S60, also known as Series 60, is a software platform and interface that sits on top of Symbian.

In the past there were other flavours of Symbian such as Symbian UIQ, Symbian Series 80 and Symbian Series 90. However, nowadays all Symbian phone manufacturers use Symbian S60. Because all Symbian phones now use S60, the two terms are often used interchangeably.

Which version of Symbian and S60 does the Nokia 5800,5233,5230 use?

The 5800 runs Symbian version 9.4 and S60 5th Edition. These are the very latest versions, and the 5800 is the first phone to run them.

S60 5th Edition is sometimes written as S60v5.

What about the S60 web browser? What's that?

It's the web browser that is built into phones running Symbian S60.

Do all of Nokia's phones run Symbian?

No. Only their advanced phone models (the smartphones) run Symbian. The ordinary cheaper models run a much simpler operating system called ISA. ISA-based phones use an interface called Series 40, and they're often referred to as "Series 40 phones".

For various historical reasons some people mistakenly think Series 40 is something to do with Symbian, but it isn't.

Are all Symbian phones made by Nokia?

No. Nokia is the biggest maker of Symbian phones, but they're not the only maker. Other companies such as Samsung, Sony Ericsson, LG and others also manufacture Symbian devices.

If Symbian is so widely-used, why have I never heard of it?

Symbian is in over 250 million devices and about half of all smartphones use it as their operating system. It's by far the most used OS on portable computing devices.
The reason you probably haven't heard of it is because it's not really a consumer brand. Manufacturers who use it in their smartphones tend not to mention it on the phone's box or on the start-up screen, so most Symbian users aren't aware that they ARE Symbian users! :-)
However that may change soon as the old Symbian company has been replaced by the Symbian Foundation, an organisation dedicated to encouraging Symbian use and awareness. The Symbian operating system has now been made royalty-free so any manufacturer can use it free-of-charge, and the Symbian "source code" is about to become open source, along much the same lines as Google's Android operating system.
Don't worry if that last part sounded like gibberish, you don't need to know anything about operating systems in order to use them. In fact you probably use several different OSes every day, in your computer, your phone, your games console, even your car if it's a new model. OSes intended for public use hide their workings behind easy-to-use interfaces so you never have to worry about what goes on behind the scenes.

What is a "smartphone" anyway?

Well, different people have different definitions of the word, but basically it means a combination of a computer and a mobile phone. Smartphones are like pocket-sized PCs, and you can even attach a monitor and full-size keyboard to many smartphones (including the 5800).

If you want a very technical definition, we would say that a smartphone lets you install and run native software. Native software means applications and games that can access the phone's computing hardware very directly, which means they can use the hardware to its fullest.

Non-smart phones can run Java apps and games, but these have to run through a special application called Java VM, which slows things down and restricts what the Java software can do. Native apps can work directly with the phone itself, and that's why smartphones can run more advanced applications than normal phones. For example smartphone games tend to have much better graphics than games on ordinary phones, because smartphone games are native software.

Who created Symbian?

Symbian, originally known as EPOC, was created by the British firm Psion, who are perhaps most famous for their best-selling "Organiser", "Series 3" and "Series 5" pocket computers of the 1990s. Psion were one of the co-founders of the Symbian company, but sold their shares a few years later.

I know this is stupid blog but so many people don know about symbian,JAVA,AND android so iposted this blog first and then i will post other blog.