Symbian OS

Symbian creates Symbian OS, an advanced, open operating system that is licensed by some of the world’s leading mobile phone manufacturers (Arima, Ben Q, Fujitsu, Lenovo, LG Electronics, Mitsubishi, Motorola, Nokia, Panasonic, Samsung, Sharp and Sony Ericsson) and is the leading OS on Smartphones: 15.9 million Symbian Smartphones shipped in Q1 2007, total cumulative shipments reach 126.4 million.

Why use ARM with Symbian?

ARM has been at the heart of Symbian since 1994, building a close partnership resulting in all Symbian OS Smartphones being built with ARM technology. As an ARM partner, Symbian is featured in the ARM Connected Community.

• ARM and Symbian collaborate to provide Symbian OS with early access to new ARM platforms including ARM1176, ARM Cortex-A8 and ARM11 MPCore.
• Symbian OS is created using RealView^® technology

ARM has developed RealView Compilation Tools for Symbian, which are exclusively available to Symbian and Symbian partners. RealView Compilation Tools are developed to deliver the tightest code density to significantly reduce image size. More details about ARM tools available here.

Board Support Packages (BSPs)

To accelerate ARM Partners' time to market ARM offers example BSPs for our range of development boards and RTSM Models in addition to those already provided by Symbian. Symbian BSPs are created by ARM and based on the Symbian Developer Kit. Symbian OS licensees interested in evaluating these BSPs can obtain them for free from ARM under an Evaluation Licence.

Symbian OS BSPs currently available from ARM are:

For support in working with Symbian BSPs visit the Symbian Developer Network++ website (be aware that access to this site is restricted to companies working in partnership with Symbian to create mobile phones).

Further information can be found here (Symbian flyer, 647KB PDF) or please contact us should you require further information.

Recent Press Releases

Date	Press Release
11 Feb 2008	ARM Announces RealView Development Suite Professional Tools For Mobile Applications
29 October 2007	UIQ Technology Joins ARM Connected Community
12 October 2007	UIQ Technology announces nine new partners
04 October 2007	Symbian and ARM Cooperate in Bringing Symmetric Multi Processing (SMP) to Future Phones Enabling High-End PC Capabilities to Consumers’ Pockets
26 March 2007	Symbian first to deliver ARM Cortex-A8 technology for smartphones
16 November 2006	100 million Symbian smartphones shipped

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