Symbian, the operating system on Nokia's smartphones, still had the largest share of smartphone sales worldwide in 2010, about 37.6 percent according to Gartner, ahead of Android at 22.7 percent. It was open-sourced in February 2010 and Symbian^3 shipped on the N8, but its ageing interface was losing developers fast.
- Vendor
- Symbian Foundation / Nokia
- Version
- S60 5th edition, Symbian^3
- Released
- September 2010
- Type
- os
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