with MMS vulnerabilities in Windows Mobile 2003 making it a particularly attractive option. While the popularity of Nokia phones made Symbian the lead platform for virus writers until 2010 ...

The first known mobile phone virus was called Cabir, or Caribe. It was discovered in June 2004 and primarily targeted devices running the Symbian operating system, which was commonly used in Nokia ...

And wireless carriers said organizations such as the Symbian Foundation will alleviate a great deal of market confusion and disparity. "Mobile phones have turned into sophisticated multimedia ...

Via the Symbian OS, the phone features full organizer and multimedia capabilities, plus office functionality, including over 20 file veiwers for formats such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Acrobat.

Leach added that Nokia will continue to use Symbian on low-end phones and does not see the platform disappearing anytime soon.

Nokia's 7650 arrived in June 2002 as Europe's first mobile phone with an integrated camera (as well as the first phone running Symbian OS), while the Sanyo SPC-5300 shipped as America's first ...

A group of leading mobile phone companies are teaming up to develop a common operating system in an attempt to thwart competition from the Google-backed Android project. The Symbian Foundation ...