Android vs Symbian

How are you Symbian? Symbian is the smart phone operating system that now rules the world. Until February 2010, the Symbian platform has been developed more than 10 years and has been buried in more than 330 million devices worldwide.

The rate on Symbian smart phones are not overtaken by other operating systems because the power of the operating system that allows outside developers to build applications on Symbian phones.

So, thousands of free and paid applications born of software developers throughout the world. This is what makes the Symbian mobile phone and content-rich Symbian users are individuals who like hack the hardware or software.

Although there are estimates Android operating system will be number two on the bottom in 2013, Symbian, Symbian was still a capable force. Moreover, according to Motorola officials promised, in 2010, the Symbian Foundation has released the full operating system as open code (open source).

Symbian smart phone is identical with the Nokia. However, not only the actual Nokia uses Symbian.


Symbian Foundation, the institution in charge of taking care of the preparation to open source Symbian, is a nonprofit organization that was announced June 24, 2008. Nokia took Sony Ericsson, Motorola, NTT DoCoMo, AT & T, LG Electronics, Samsung Electronics, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments, Vodafone, and several rows of another brand to hoist Symbian.

Besides funding, Siemens to contribute Symbian OS and S60 for Symbian Foundation. Sony Ericsson and Motorola did not want to lose, they donate their mainstay code, which is UIQ. NTT DoCoMo to contribute MOAP (S).

With that capital, the future of the Symbian Foundation should be more hit the market. Speculation is rampant that the Symbian alliance to confront Android.

However, in a chance, Bob Iannucci who was then serving Senior Vice President Chief Technology Officer of Siemens argued that presumption. "All along we are in this business. So this is not true that our response to Android, "he said.