Symbian

History

2007

  • ScreenPlay and FreeWay launched bringing big screen effects and broadband to consumers’ pockets
  • New R&D centre opens in China
  • 20 million smartphones shipped in Japan
  • Symbian announces Symbian OS v9.5
  • Symbian introduces POSIX libraries on Symbian OS

2006

  • 100 million smartphones shipped worldwide
  • Symbian launches Symbian Signed to make application signing faster
  • Symbian and Sling Media partner to bring personal TV home viewing to consumers
  • Symbian OS smartphone shipments reach 10 million in Japan

2005

  • Nigel Clifford named CEO of Symbian Limited 
  • Symbian OS v9 announced
  • New Symbian OS phones unveiled: Lenovo P930, Motorola A1010, Panasonic X800, Samsung SGH-D720, Sendo X2, Nokia 6680, Nokia 6681, FOMA F901iC, Nokia N90, Nokia N91, Nokia N70, Nokia 6682, FOMA D901i, FOMA F901iS, D901iS
  • Symbian licenses Microsoft Exchange Server ActiveSync protocol for Symbian OS

2004

  • Sharp licenses Symbian OS
  • Sir Peter Gershon joins Board of Symbian Limited as an independent chairman
  • Symbian shareholders purchase Psion stake in Symbian and invest a further £50m in cash funding
  • Lenovo, China’s largest IT corporation, licenses Symbian OS
  • Symbian OS v8.0 announced
  • Arima and LG Electronics license Symbian OS
  • New Symbian OS phones unveiled: Panasonic X700, Motorola A1000, Nokia 6260, 6630, 9500, 7610 and N-Gage QD, Samsung SGH-D710, Sony Ericsson P910, FOMA F900iT,F900iC and F880iES

2003

  • Nokia 6600, the first phone to utilize Symbian OS v7.0s, produced
  • Symbian OS v7.0s unveiled
  • Successive new Symbian OS phones unveiled:
    FOMA F2102v and F900i, Motorola A920 and A925, Nokia 7700, Sendo X, Siemens SX1, Sony Ericsson P900
  • BenQ announces the P30, based on UIQ
  • Samsung becomes a Symbian shareholder

2002

  • NTT DoCoMo launches 3G FOMA F2051 from Fujitsu
  • Sendo licenses Symbian OS
  • Siemens becomes a Symbian shareholder
  • Symbian OS v7.0 for 3G mobile phones unveiled
  • Sony Ericsson joins Symbian as a shareholder and licensee

2001

  • Fujitsu licenses Symbian OS
  • The first 2.5G Symbian OS phone, the Nokia 7650, is announced
  • The Nokia 9210 Communicator goes on sale to the public

2000

  • Sony and Sanyo license Symbian OS
  • The world’s first Symbian OS phone, the Ericsson R380,
    goes on sale to the public

1999

  • Matsushita (Panasonic) joins Symbian as shareholder and licensee
  • Symbian awarded title of 'best overall' company with the 'best long term potential' by US magazine Red Herring

1998

  • Symbian established as a private independent company in June 1998, owned by Ericsson, Nokia, Motorola and Psion

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