Symbian Foundation

What is the Symbian Foundation?

The Symbian Foundation was established by industry-leading mobile device manufacturers. We provide, manage and unify the Symbian platform, and are committed to moving the platform to open source during the next two years and will make the platform code available to all for free.

What is the Symbian platform?

The Symbian platform is open source software based on Symbian OS, the most widely used open operating system for mobile phones. The OS has been integrated with software assets contributed by Nokia, NTT DOCOMO, and Sony Ericsson, including the S60 and MOAP(S) user interfaces.

What is Symbian’s role in the community?

Symbian is responsible for driving compatibility across devices, securing the economies of scale for efficient development. This consistency and compatibility enables the entire ecosystem to accelerate innovation and therefore the availability of new services and compelling experiences for consumers and business users around the world.

We ensure that the Symbian platform preserves and builds on existing investments in Symbian OS and S60 interfaces. This secures business model continuity for the existing strong developer base.

We are also responsible for developer support, including

• SDKs
• Documentation
• Application signing program
• Online support forums

More links

• You can find a more complete description of who we are and what we believe in here: http://www.symbian.org/about.php
• Follow the blog: http://blog.symbian.org/
• Visit the developer site here: http://developer.symbian.org/