symbian (company)

Symbian Ltd. is a software development and licensing company established in June 1998, headquartered in the UK. It is owned by Ericsson, Nokia, Matsushita (Panasonic), Siemens, Sony Ericsson and Samsung. The company's founder shareholders were Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola. Motorola sold its stake in the company to Psion and Nokia in September 2003. Psion's stake was bought by Nokia, Panasonic, Siemens and Sony Ericsson in July 2004. Symbian develops and licenses Symbian OS, an operating system for advanced 2.5G and 3G mobile phones. User interface layers are provided by third parties. These include Series 60 and Series 80 from Nokia, and UIQ from UIQ Technologies Current licensees of Symbian's operating system are Arima, BenQ, Fujitsu, Motorola, Nokia, Panasonic, Samsung, Sendo, Siemens and Sony Ericsson. Much of Symbian's initial intellectual property came from the software arm of Psion PLC. The current CEO is David Levin. Former CEO, Colly Myers, left the company in 2002 to found Issuebits, the company behind SMS information service Any Question Answered (AQA). See also: Symbian OS

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