page_title: Symbian
section_title: Browser
hierarchical_section_title: Symbian / Features / Browser
caption_attribution_description: English: Samsung i8910HD with personal start screen Deutsch: Samsung i8910HD mit persönlichem Startbildschirm
context_page_description: Symbian is a discontinued mobile operating system and computing platform designed for smartphones. Symbian was originally developed as a Proprietary software OS for PDAs in 1998 by the Symbian Ltd. consortium. Symbian OS is a descendant of Psion's EPOC, and was released exclusively on ARM processors, although an unreleased x86 port existed. Symbian was used by many major mobile phone brands, like Samsung, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, and above all by Nokia. It was also prevalent in Japan by brands including Fujitsu, Sharp and Mitsubishi. As a pioneer that established the smartphone industry, it was the most popular smartphone OS on a worldwide average until the end of 2010—at a time when smartphones were in limited use—when it was overtaken by iOS and Android. It was notably not as popular in North America.
  The Symbian OS platform is formed of two components: one being the microkernel-based operating system with its associated libraries, and the other being the user interface, which provides the graphical shell atop the OS. The most prominent user interface was the S60 platform built by Nokia, first released in 2002 and powering most Nokia Symbian devices.
context_section_description: Symbian^3 and earlier have a built-in WebKit based browser. Symbian was the first mobile platform to make use of WebKit (in June 2005). Some older Symbian models have Opera Mobile as their default browser.
  Nokia released a new browser with the release of Symbian Anna with improved speed and an improved user interface.
caption: Symbian S60 5th edition on a Samsung Omnia HD
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