Symbian Ltd was formed in 1998 as a joint venture between Psion and the mobile phone makers Ericsson, Nokia and Motorola to create a common operating system for smartphones. It grew out of Psion's EPOC system, designed for small battery-powered handheld computers, and was built to run in the limited memory of early mobile devices. Symbian OS powered many Nokia and Sony Ericsson phones and, through the 2000s, was the most widely used smartphone platform in the world. It lost ground after the arrival of the iPhone and Android, Nokia took full control of it in 2008 and later turned to Windows Phone, and the platform was effectively wound down in the early 2010s.
Before and after
- from 6 May 1998 to 25 May 2000Eritrean–Ethiopian War
- 14 May 1998Death of Frank Sinatra
- from 20 May 1998 to 26 May 19981998 War in Abkhazia
- 1 June 1998Founding of European Central Bank
- 5 June 1998Creation of Symbian
- from 6 June 1998 to 22 February 2004Premiere of Sex and the City
- 23 June 1998Discovery of Gliese 876 b
- 25 June 1998Aarhus Convention
- 27 June 1998Construction of Kuala Lumpur International Airport
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- 1945Invention of computer
- 1964Discovery of rutherfordium
- 29 October 1969Invention of Internet
- 1984Discovery of hassium
- 15 January 2001Wikipedia
- 20 October 2004Creation of Ubuntu
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