Talk:Symbian OS

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[edit] First Symbian phone

Isnt the first Symbian 6.0 phone Nokia 7650? --194.106.188.16 20:38, 14 July 2006 (UTC) Nope, that was Symbian 6.1. 9210 was the first 6.0 phone, R380 first ER5U phone. Adetaylor 22:38, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Symbian and open source

I thought Symbian OS was open source, can someone verify this off hand (and what license it is?) --ShaunMacPherson 12:09, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC)

No that is not correct, Symbian OS source is sold via a development kit license (for development purposes) or customisation kit license (for device creation). --Edderly 22:34, 13 May 2004 (UTC)
So I guess this makes it impossible to run free software on Symbian OS, or is it? G-u-a-k-@ 18:40, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Running free software application on an OS does not require the source code to the OS. There is free software running on Symbian OS, since the software development kit (SDK) is available to all. For cross developing on PCs for the Symbian OS devicez, you can use the MS VC++ and/or Borland C++. You can also develop in Java for Symbian OS versions that have the Java runtime. See ...
-- sabre23t 23:06, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I just found http://symbianos.org, a collection of free software for symbian :)

[edit] Symbian processors

On what processors does Symbian run, and could it be possible to install a free operating system next to or instead of Symbian? 18:41, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I believe Symbian mostly run on Arm9 based CPUs. May be possible to install free OS alongside Symbian, but I haven't come across any when I was using Nokia 9210. You'd have to ask "real" Symbian OS developer this. Try ...
-- sabre23t 23:06, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Symbian OS runs on ARM CPUs. Earlier versions of Symbian OS were used in Psion Series 5 organisers. There is an active project here:
Which lets you run Linux (and X!) on a Psion Series 5, Series 7, Revo or netBook. In theory the same could be done on phones running later versions of Symbian OS, but I'm not aware of anyone attempting it.
--Rob

Can Symbian Os be installed in pentium processors and with a normal desktop configuration.if so how?.

[edit] Symbian redirect

Should it really come here rather than going to Symbian Ltd. which seems rather more natural?

[edit] Cleanup tags, Merge

I'm removing the {{cleanup}} tag, if only because the article is now significantly different from when it was originally tagged [1], and has seen review by many others. Also, regarding the merge-tag from EPOC (computing) to here... does anyone have any comments on that? I'm slightly in favor of keeping the articles separate because: 1) The Symbian OS article is somewhat long already (17k). 2) the EPOC OS work was done by Psion, eg. done by a slightly different company, and we also have separate pages for details like Psion 3 and Psion 5, those pages are similar in length to the EPOC page, and if the EPOC page was felt to be too short, we could even go as far to merge those three together. 3) many people have edited the article, and none of them have performed the merge despite the suggestion. I don't have a really strong feeling on this, though if nobody comments for a while, I might remove the merge tag. --Interiot 17:35, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thoughts on the merge

EPOC really is Symbian OS. There's more difference between Symbian OS 8 and 9 than there is between EPOC 5 and Symbian OS 6. So I am in favour of the merge, but haven't been able/willing to approach it myself.

Once it's all merged into one page then it might be sensible to separate them out a bit, e.g. more pages for different versions. Just my 2p worth, anyway.

Adetaylor 21:38, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Symbian is used on mobile phones, EPOC was more for Psion devices, so for users it's a real difference, also in interface, interaction... I'd suggest leave them as separate articles.

Marijn de Jong 1:57, 14 December 2005 (CET)

I agree that the pages should be merged -- anonymous owner of several Psion PDA devices. 21:19 5 April 2006 (PST)

I'd keep them separate as the devices they run on are different. Stephen B Streater 06:28, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] External link explosion

I'd prefer if the article had only 5-8 external links, beyond those directly connected to Symbian or Nokia. Having a long list of low-quality sites just encourages others to add more low-quality links (and wikipedia isn't a repository of links).

I'm not really closely familiar with all the sites listed here, but I have a few suggestions for organizing these:

  1. separate out the links that are more associated with developer information, from the sites that list software/hacks to download (since devs and end-users probably want different kinds of content)
  2. single-contributor blogs are less valuable than sites that are maintained or contributed to by many people. I removed symbianreview.com because it's hardly ever updated. symbianwatch.com is updated somewhat regularly... could we vote on this one?
  3. If there are a lot of forums/wikis out there, can we try to just list the top 3 or 4 of them?

--Interiot 12:02, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Help with Carbide.c++ page

Hi, given my job at Nokia making Carbide.c++ I'm destined to be biased about my product but thought it would be useful to have a separate page for the tool, much like Visual Studio has its own. Now the Carbide.c++ page has been flagged as advertising... I could use some outside help to weigh the content for neutrality.

Cheers, Maahonen

Hi, I've made it more neutral, although that did involve including some criticism of Carbide. Hopefully you don't mind too much - I expect it should at least save the article from deletion. I definitely do agree it deserves a page. Cheers, Adetaylor 08:06, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Skulls Virus?

Shouldn't there be a reference to the skulls virus? Solidsnake204 19:28, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

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