the name given to a venture formed by Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola, and Psion to create easy to use operating systems for wireless devices and personal digital assistants (PDAs). The first operating system is called EPOC.

A joint venture among LM Ericsson Telephone Co., Motorola Inc., Nokia Corp. and Psion PLC to develop new operating systems based on Psion's EPOC32 platform for small mobile devices for wireless devices such as phones and handhelds.

A joint venture with Motorola, Nokia & Psion aimed at assuming a leadership role in the rapidly expanding Wireless Information Device market. Symbian is developing the operating system EPOC. See also www.symbian.com ynchronous Type of transmission in which the transmission and reception of all data is synchronized by a common clock and the data is usually transmitted in blocks rather than individual characters. Can also mean that the data stream has the same capacity in both directions. ynchronous mode Standard for data transmission - data is transferred without start and stop bits together with a clock signal to synchronize the receiver. This mode gives higher data throughput than asynchronous mode, but can be less secure. obile system A mobile phone system or network consists of a network of cells. Each cell is served by a radio base station from where calls are forwarded to and received from your mobile phone by wireless radio signals.

The operating system programmed into all Nokia smartphones that acts as a foundation for the Series 60 platform to work on. Comparable to the software version of an engine - it makes everything else work.

a joint venture between a number of mobile phone manufacturers that creates operating system software for mobile phones and personal digital assistants / PDAs. Phones running a Symbian operating system can also run compatible programs / applications.

Symbian is a bold new venture formed by Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola, and Psion to create easy to use operating systems for wireless devices and personal digital assistants (PDAs). The first operating system is called EPOC and was launched earlier this year.

Operating system for mobile phones and PDA. Development of Symbian concern founded by such companies as Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Mitsushita, Motorola (and now also Sanyo and Kenwood).

A software licensing company, owned by wireless industry leaders, which is the supplier of an advanced, open, standard operating system for data-enabled wireless devices.

A company created by Psion, Nokia, Ericsson and Motorola in 1998 with the aim of developing and standardising an operating system which enable mobile phones from different manufacturers to exchange information. Recently Nokia bought out Psion's stake in Symbian. The operating system is known as EPOC. Matsushita has subsequently joined Symbian T9 Look at Predictive Text Input.

An alternative mobile phone operating system to Windows Mobile.

A joint venture between Psion, Motorola, Ericsson and Nokia to develop and support the EPOC operating system. Formerly known as Psion Software. Symbian also refers to the operating system used by Nokia and Sony Ericsson in their mobile phones.

The joint venture between Ericsson Inc., Motorola Inc., Nokia Corp. and Psion to develop new operating systems based on Psion's EPOC32 platform for small mobile devices including wireless phones or handheld personal computers. Close Window

A joint venture between Psion, Ericsson, Nokia and Motorola to promote the EPOC operating system for wireless information devices.

Symbian owns and develops the Symbian operating system that is optimised. for mobile terminals, such as communicators and smart phones. G - O P - S T - Z G - O P - S T - Z

A joint venture originally set up by Ericsson, Nokia and Psion to develop an industry-standard operating system for mobile multimedia terminals (EPOC).