Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ewan Spence covers the digital worlds of mobile technology. In all the delightful sentiments about renewals and resolutions, the ...

Symbian, the UK-based maker of the world's most popular smartphone operating system, is going through big changes. As well as being taken over by Nokia, the company is preparing to convert its closed ...

True to Monday's teaser, Nokia unveiled its latest update to the Symbian OS as well as a few new devices. Belle is indeed coming, and it's heading to the Nokia 700, 701 and 600 in the third quarter of ...

Will the last one to leave please turn out the valot? This week, Finnish smartphone creator Nokia announced that it had shipped its final handset running the Symbian operating system. As the last ...

In a surprise move, Nokia announced Monday it’s taking back control of the open source Symbian project. Symbian is one of the oldest mobile phone operating systems around and has been a Nokia ...

There was a time, long ago, when Nokia dominated the mobile phone market, but sadly, the company failed to evolve with the times. It has been close to a decade since the last high-end Nokia Symbian ...

On Wednesday, Nokia announced the next update of their Symbian^3 operating system, named Belle, would be coming out in February for select devices. Except they didn’t call it Symbian Belle, but Nokia ...

Symbian will continue to be a key component of Nokia's mobile strategy, with the potential to help the Finnish handset maker drive the growing smartphone segment of its mobile portfolio, according to ...

Finland’s Nokia is in the midst of switching over to Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform, but since the first devices aren’t due to ship until the end of this year—and won’t start shipping in earnest ...

Nokia's already done quite a bit to cut ties with last year's big push for Symbian and Qt development, though this is perhaps the biggest step yet. The Finnish company has announced it's transferring ...

In the largest migration from a proprietary to an open source model ever, the most popular OS for mobile phones (over 330 million phones) in the world is now open source. The Symbian mobile OS which ...

Gartner came out with its view of the 2009 mobile phone market, and it adds an interesting second look at the one we saw from IDC. Not only is more than 1 out of every 7 handsets sold today a ...