• Symbian is an open source operating system (OS) designed for mobile devices and smartphones, with associated libraries, user interface, frameworks and reference implementations of common tools, originally developed by Symbian Ltd.

• In 2008, the former Symbian Software Limited was acquired by Nokia and a new independent non-profit organisation called the Symbian Foundation was established.

• Symbian was officially released into Open source world in Feb 2010.

• Symbian is the world's most popular mobile operating system, accounting for 45% of smartphone sales.[4]

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbian_OS

• Some facts from http://www.symbian.org/symbian-platform:
  • Symbian is used on 389 million devices worldwide
  • in over 240 networks
  • Symbian has 70% of the market share in China (instat.co.cn)

• Currently Mobile OCR Engine 4.0

• ABBYY Business Card Reader

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