ARM Participation to the Symbian Foundation

Symbian is the market leading open operating system for mobile handsets. Terminal manufacturers have brought dozens of Symbian OS devices to the market over the last 10+ years and hundreds of millions of instances of the OS running are running on phones in people's pockets today. The term Smartphone is synonymous with Symbian.

Symbian OS, and its UI frameworks, have been exclusively deployed on the ARM^® architecture since their inception. Symbian and ARM have a long history of co-innovation that has increased the performance and feature set of Symbian mobile handsets instigating many of the benefits that mobile phone users take for granted today.

The ARM Advantage

Related Products

Resources

The Symbian Foundation releases complement the following ARM technologies

Symbian^2

RVDS2.2 build for ARMv5 ISA
Texas Instruments OMAP3 low cost Beagle Board Reference platform including ARM Cortex-A8

Additional Features in Symbian^3

RVDS4.0 build for ARMv7 ISA
SMP Safe Kernel and Platform on ARMv7 SMP Platform
Mali (OpenGL ES 2.0) support in new graphics architecture

Application Processors

Multimedia

Tools

For Phone Development

For Application Development

In addition to all the commercially available tools listed above, ARM also supplies a version of RealView Develoment Suite free for Symbian Platform application development purposes.

News and Events

Up to date information on the status of Symbian can be found at the Symbian blog.

Information

Nokia maintains a number of tools and SDKs for Symbian development:

Forum Nokia maintains to a number of tools, SDK and code examples for Symbian developers.
Nokia's Symbian site maintains documentation for Symbian development.
Nokia's Qt site maintains an IDE, tools, code examples and SDKs for Symbian and a number of other OS platforms.