In all the delightful sentiments about renewals and resolutions, the start of 2014 is also the scene of a smartphone goodbye that deserves more than the whimper it has received. While the handsets are ...

Do you remember Nokia phones, with their Symbian OS? Dead and gone, you might think, but even they have dedicated enthusiasts here in 2026. Some of them have gone so far as to produce a new ROM for ...

Symbian, the world's dominant but seriously challenged operating system for smart phones, on Thursday announced its take on application distribution--the Symbian Horizon application-publishing ...

Will this be the year of Android, Symbian or LiMo? With Google's mobile platform, Android, set to have a "very, very strong year," according to Chief Executive Eric Schmidt , other open-source mobile ...

There was a time, long ago, when Nokia dominated the mobile phone market, but sadly, the company failed to evolve with the times. It has been close to a decade since the last high-end Nokia Symbian ...

newsmaker Symbian, the UK-based maker of the world's most popular smartphone operating system, is going through big changes. As well as being taken over by Nokia, the company is preparing to convert ...

Will the last one to leave please turn out the valot? This week, Finnish smartphone creator Nokia announced that it had shipped its final handset running the Symbian operating system. As the last ...

Symbian will continue to be a key component of Nokia's mobile strategy, with the potential to help the Finnish handset maker drive the growing smartphone segment of its mobile portfolio, according to ...

In a surprise move, Nokia announced Monday it’s taking back control of the open source Symbian project. Symbian is one of the oldest mobile phone operating systems around and has been a Nokia ...

I've been a tech journalist for almost 25 years and started Pocket-lint in 2003. Over the years I've questioned or interviewed leading tech industry figures from Steve Jobs, Steve Ballmer, Mark ...

In the largest migration from a proprietary to an open source model ever, the most popular OS for mobile phones (over 330 million phones) in the world is now open source. The Symbian mobile OS which ...

We're about to see what full-blown competition for the future of the computing industry looks like when multiple players get a shot to make an impact. The next great operating systems wars are about ...