DELA CRUZ, ROCHEL

DOMINGO,
ROBINAIRE

JOSE, CYREL JAMES

HISTORY OF SYMBIAN OS 

• IN 1980, EPOC (Electronic Piece of Cheese) was the initial name of Symbian OS and  it was
founded by David Potter of Psion (Potter Scientific Instrument). 
         - It is available in 2 versions. 16-bit that was written in C and the 32-bit that was written in C++.
• June 21, 1998,  a major partnership between Psion, Ericsson, Motorola, and Nokia created
Symbian Ltd., and they renamed the EPOC into Symbian OS.
• In June 2008, Nokia announced the acquisition of Symbian Ltd., and established a new
independent non-profit organization called the Symbian Foundation, with an intention of
making the Symbian platform as an open-source software.
• Throughout the years, they had created major updates for the OS such as Symbian version
6, 7, 8, 9, Symbian Anna and Symbian Belle being the last before its discontinuation in May
2014.
FEATURES Browsing: Full web-browser support

Messaging: Support SMS, MMS, EMS, POP3, IMAP4,

SMTP, Standard attachment, fax.
Multimedia: It supports audio, video recording, playback
and streaming, and image conversion.
Data synchronization: support USB and Bluetooth links.
Transfer file and document.
Support different versions of mobile connectivity such as 
2G,2.5G,3G.
Simple and easy to operate UI.
 • to provide an operating system on various
smartphone platforms from 2003 until
2010. before Google's android OS took its
SPECIFIC place as the main operating system on
PURPOSE OF most smartphones today. the OS was
intended to be the basis of smartphones at
SYMBIAN OS its time as it was specifically designed to
run on smartphones from the 2000-2010
era were more prevalent.
HARDWARE
COMPATIBILITY
AND SYSTEM
REQUIREMENTS