about Symbian

Symbian creates and licenses Symbian OS, the market leading open operating system for smartphones. Symbian OS is licensed to the world's top handset manufacturers, who account for over 85% of worldwide mobile phone sales. Together they have sold over 126 million Symbian smartphones worldwide.

Feature-rich, high performance networking for a connected mobile world

A platform for wireless services
Symbian OS is robust, modular and scalable enough to be used in the variety of mobile phones needed to meet a wide range of user requirements. It's a secure and fully customizable OS platform for global use, open to all mobile developers.

Secure, flexible and customizable OS, open to all mobile developers

Symbian Signed Symbian Signed is the mobile industry endorsed certification program that promotes best practice in designing applications to run on Symbian OS phones. Symbian Signed applications follow industry agreed quality guidelines and support network operator requirements for applications and content. New features, tools and services are constantly being added to the program. Check out the new Fast Track signing process on www.symbiansigned.com

Symbian Developer Network
The Symbian Developer Network is the primary resource for Symbian developers. It provides access to the technical information and tools needed to succeed when developing software for Symbian smartphones. SDN provides downloads, technical papers, system documentation as well as more interactive elements such as the Symbian Developer Network Newsgroups and Forums, private messaging between registered users and a Wiki.

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