49-1122: (Redirected from Nokia X7 ) "Nokia X7" redirects here. For the newer phone of the same name, see Nokia 8.1 . Nokia X7-00 [REDACTED] Manufacturer Nokia Series Nokia Xseries Predecessor Nokia X5-00 Nokia X6-00 Successor Nokia Lumia 710 Compatible networks GSM , HSDPA, HSUPA Dimensions 119.7 × 62.8 × 11.9 mm Weight 146 g (0.322 lb) Operating system Symbian^3 "Anna" "Belle" CPU ARM11 680 MHz Memory 256 MB RAM 350MB storage 1GB ROM Micro SD expansion up to 32 GB Battery 1,200mAh Li-ion Rear camera 8.0-megapixel CMOS, 2x digital zoom for image, 3x digital zoom for video, dual LED flash, Face recognition software Display 640×360 4-inch (10 cm) AMOLED touchscreen Connectivity Bluetooth , Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n USB connector and charging, 3.5mm audio connector, FM radio Data inputs Capacitive touch display, Proximity sensor, Accelerometer The Nokia X7-00
98-562: A proprietary software OS for personal digital assistants 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
147-563: A scheduler , memory management and device drivers , with networking , telephony, and file system support services in the OS Services Layer or the Base Services Layer. The inclusion of device drivers means the kernel is not a true microkernel. Symbian features pre-emptive multitasking and memory protection , like other operating systems (especially those created for use on desktop computers). EPOC's approach to multitasking
196-547: A Symbian specific C++ version, along with CodeWarrior and later Carbide.c++ integrated development environment (IDE), as the native application development environment. Web Runtime (WRT) is a portable application framework that allows creating widgets on the S60 Platform ; it is an extension to the S60 WebKit based browser that allows launching multiple browser instances as separate JavaScript applications. As of 2010,
245-600: 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. Symbian had strong localization support enabling manufacturers and 3rd party application developers to localize Symbian based products to support global distribution. Nokia made languages available in
294-410: A different compiler. A choice of compilers is available including a newer version of GCC (see external links below). Symbian C++ programming has a steep learning curve , as Symbian C++ requires the use of special techniques such as descriptors, active objects and the cleanup stack. This can make even relatively simple programs initially harder to implement than in other environments. It is possible that
343-431: A memory card. An alternative is to partner with a phone manufacturer and have the software included on the phone itself. Applications must be Symbian Signed for Symbian OS 9.x to make use of certain capabilities (system capabilities, restricted capabilities and device manufacturer capabilities). Applications could be signed for free in 2010. Symbian's design is subdivided into technology domains , each of which comprises
392-563: A native graphics toolkit since its inception, known as AVKON (formerly known as Series 60 ). S60 was designed to be manipulated by a keyboard-like interface metaphor, such as the ~15-key augmented telephone keypad, or the mini-QWERTY keyboards. AVKON-based software is binary-compatible with Symbian versions up to and including Symbian^3. Symbian^3 includes the Qt framework , which became the recommended user interface toolkit for new applications. Qt can also be installed on older Symbian devices. Symbian^4
441-475: 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 less 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
490-438: A plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio. On 13 March 2007 AppForge ceased operations; Oracle purchased the intellectual property, but announced that they did not plan to sell or provide support for former AppForge products. Net60, a .NET compact framework for Symbian, which is developed by redFIVElabs, is sold as a commercial product. With Net60, VB.NET, and C# (and other) source code is compiled into an intermediate language (IL) which
539-634: A proprietary operating system to a free software project is believed to be one of the largest in history. Symbian^3 received the Anna and Belle updates in 2011. The Symbian Foundation disintegrated in late 2010 and Nokia took back control of the OS development. In February 2011, Nokia, by then the only remaining company still supporting Symbian outside Japan, announced that it would use Microsoft 's Windows Phone 7 as its primary smartphone platform, while Symbian would be gradually wound down. Two months later, Nokia moved
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slide 6710 Navigator 6720 classic 6730 6760 Slide 6800 6810 6820 6822 Nokia 7000 series 7110 7160 7210 7230 7250 7260 7270 7280 7360 7370 7373 7380 7390 7500 Prism 7510 Supernova 7600 7610 7650 7700 7710 7900 Prism 7900 Crystal Prism Nokia 8000 series 8110/8110/8110i/8148 4G 8210/8250/8260/8265/8265i/8270 8210 4G 8310/8390 8600 Luna 8800 8810 8850/8890 8855 8860 8887 8910 Nokia 9000 series (Nokia Communicator) 9000 9000i 9110 9110i 9210 9210i 9290 9300 9300i 9500 Nokia 3-digit series (feature phone) 100 101 2011 103 105 2015 2017 2019 4G 2023 4G (2023) 2024 106 2018 2023 4G (2023) 107 108 109 110 2019 4G 2022 2023 4G (2023) 111 112 113 114 130 2017 150 2020 206 207 208 215 4G 4G (2024) 220 4G 4G (2024) 222 225 4G 2024 230 235 301 515 Nokia Asha Asha 200/201 Asha 202 Asha 203 Asha 205 Asha 210 Asha 300 Asha 302 Asha 303 Asha 305 Asha 306 Asha 308 Asha 309 Asha 310 Asha 311 Nokia Asha platform Asha 230 Asha 500 Asha 501 Asha 502 Asha 503 Nokia Cseries C1-00 C1-01 C1-02 C2-00 C2-01 C2-02 C2-03 C2-05 C2-06 C3 C3-01 C5-00 C5-03 C6-00 C6-01 C7 Astound Nokia Eseries E5 E50 E51 E52 E55 E6 E60 E61/E61i E62 E63 E65 E66 E7 E70 E71 E72 E73 Mode E75 E90 Communicator Nokia Nseries N70 N71 N72 N73 N75 N76 N77 N78 N79 N8 N80 Internet Edition N81 8GB N82 N85 N86 8MP N9 N90 N91 8GB N92 N93 N93i N95 8GB N96 N97 mini Tablet N1 (Android) N800 N810 WiMAX Edition N900 N950 Nokia Xseries X1-00 X1-01 X2-00 X2-01 X2-02 X2-05 X3-00 X3-02 X5-00/01 X6-00 X7-00 Nokia 3-digit series (Symbian phone) 500 600 603 700 701 808 PureView Lumia Lumia 505 Lumia 510 Lumia 520 Lumia 525 Lumia 530 Lumia 610 Lumia 620 Lumia 625 Lumia 630 Lumia 635 Lumia 638 Lumia 710 Lumia 720 Lumia 730 Lumia 735 Lumia 800 Lumia 810 Lumia 820 Lumia 822 Lumia 830 Lumia 900 Lumia 920 Lumia 925 Lumia 928 Lumia Icon Lumia 930 Lumia 1020 Lumia 1320 Lumia 1520 Tablet Lumia 2520 Nokia Internet Tablet N1 770 N800 N810 WiMAX Edition N900 N950 N-Gage Classic QD QD Silver Edition Nokia X family X X+ XL X2 XL 4G Android smartphones 1 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637-491: A set of software packages . Each technology domain has its own roadmap, and the Symbian Foundation has a team of technology managers who manage these technology domain roadmaps. Every package is allocated to exactly one technology domain, based on the general functional area to which the package contributes and by which it may be influenced. By grouping related packages by themes, the Symbian Foundation hopes to encourage
686-449: A single-core phone around it – that is, a phone in which a single processor core executes both the user applications and the signalling stack . The real-time kernel has a microkernel architecture containing only the minimum, most basic primitives and functionality, for maximum robustness, availability and responsiveness. It has been termed a nanokernel , because it needs an extended kernel to implement any other abstractions. It contains
735-504: A strong community to form around them and to generate discussion and review. The Symbian System Model illustrates the scope of each of the technology domains across the platform packages. Packages are owned and maintained by a package owner, a named individual from an organization member of the Symbian Foundation, who accepts code contributions from the wider Symbian community and is responsible for package. The Symbian kernel ( EKA2 ) supports sufficiently fast real-time response to build
784-1444: Is a Symbian^3 smartphone from the Nokia Xseries . It is the first Xseries phone with Nokia's Symbian^3 platform and it shipped with the Anna update. It is also the successor to X6 , which was the previous multimedia touchscreen phone, with similar features and specifications in the series. The X7-00 was announced on 12 April 2011, alongside the Nokia E6 . Features [ edit ] WCDMA Size: 119.7 × 62.8 × 11.9mm Display: 4.0-inch; AMOLED, 16 million colors. Screen resolution: 640x360 pixels (184ppi) Scratch-resistant capacitive touchscreen Integrated and Assisted GPS Wireless LAN (Wi-Fi) Other services, features or applications [ edit ] Calendar, Contacts, Music player, Internet, Messaging, Photos, Videos, Web TV, Office documents viewers, Mail and Radio OVI services: Ovi store, Ovi map, Nokia Ovi suite, Nokia Ovi Player Operating times [ edit ] Talk time: Up to 6 hours 30 minutes Standby time: Up to 450 hours Music playback: Up to 50 hours Video playback: Up to 20 hours See also [ edit ] Ovi store Nokia C7-00 Nokia 7 plus Nokia 8.1 References [ edit ] ^ Official website of Bluetooth ^ "Nokia strengthens smartphone portfolio with two new products and
833-540: Is executed within the Symbian OS using a just-in-time compiler. (As of 18 January 2010, RedFiveLabs has ceased development of Net60 with this announcement on their landing page: "At this stage we are pursuing some options to sell the IP so that Net60 may continue to have a future.") There is also a version of a Borland IDE for Symbian OS. Symbian development is also possible on Linux and macOS using tools and methods developed by
882-613: Is written in C++ using Symbian Software's coding standards, it is possible to develop using Symbian C++, although it is not a standard implementation. Before the release of the Qt SDK, this was the standard development environment. There were multiple platforms based on Symbian OS that provided software development kits (SDKs) for application developers wishing to target Symbian OS devices, the main ones being UIQ and S60. Individual phone products, or families, often had SDKs or SDK extensions downloadable from
931-570: The Nokia X7 in China, is a Nokia -branded mid-range smartphone by HMD Global , running the Android One variant of Android . It was announced on 6 December 2018. This mobile phone related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Symbian Symbian was a mobile operating system (OS) and computing platform designed for smartphones . It was originally developed as
980-624: The Symbian Foundation was established. Symbian OS and its associated user interfaces S60 , UIQ , and MOAP (S) were contributed by their owners Nokia , NTT DoCoMo , Sony Ericsson , and Symbian Ltd. , to the foundation with the objective of creating the Symbian platform as a royalty-free, Free software , under the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and Open Source Initiative (OSI) approved Eclipse Public License (EPL). The platform
1029-471: The 1990s. In June 1998, Psion Software became Symbian Ltd. , a major joint venture between Psion and phone manufacturers Ericsson , Motorola , and Nokia . Afterwards, different software platforms were created for Symbian, backed by different groups of mobile phone manufacturers. They include S60 ( Nokia , Samsung and LG ), UIQ ( Sony Ericsson and Motorola ) and MOAP (S) (Japanese only such as Fujitsu , Sharp etc.). With no major competition in
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#17330933962251078-550: The OS to proprietary licensing, only collaborating with the Japanese OEMs and later outsourced Symbian development to Accenture . Although support was promised until 2016, including two major planned updates, by 2012 Nokia had mostly abandoned development and most Symbian developers had already left Accenture, and in January 2014 Nokia stopped accepting new or changed Symbian software from developers. The Nokia 808 PureView in 2012
1127-458: The OS; then the stubborn developer bureaucracy, along with high prices of various integrated development environments (IDEs) and software development kits (SDKs), which were prohibitive for independent or very small developers; and then the subsequent fragmentation, which was in part caused by infighting among and within manufacturers, each of which also had their own IDEs and SDKs. All of this discouraged third-party developers, and served to cause
1176-445: The SDK for Symbian is standard C++, using Qt . It can be used with either Qt Creator , or Carbide (the older IDE previously used for Symbian development). A phone simulator allows testing of Qt apps. Apps compiled for the simulator are compiled to native code for the development platform, rather than having to be emulated. Application development can either use C++ or QML . As Symbian OS
1225-606: The Symbian Foundation announced that due to changes in global economic and market conditions (and also a lack of support from members such as Samsung and Sony Ericsson ), it would transition to a licensing-only organisation; Nokia announced it would take over the stewardship of the Symbian platform. Symbian Foundation would remain the trademark holder and licensing entity and would only have non-executive directors involved. With market share sliding from 39% in Q32010 to 31% in Q42010, Symbian
1274-511: The commercial IDE CodeWarrior for Symbian OS was favoured. The CodeWarrior tools were replaced during 2006 by Carbide.c++ , an Eclipse -based IDE developed by Nokia. Carbide.c++ is offered in four different versions: Express, Developer, Professional, and OEM, with increasing levels of capability. Fully featured software can be created and released with the Express edition, which is free. Features such as UI design, crash debugging etc. are available in
1323-811: The community, partly enabled by Symbian releasing the source code for key tools. A plug-in that allows development of Symbian OS applications in Apple's Xcode IDE for Mac OS X was available. Java ME applications for Symbian OS are developed using standard techniques and tools such as the Sun Java Wireless Toolkit (formerly the J2ME Wireless Toolkit). They are packaged as JAR (and possibly JAD) files. Both CLDC and CDC applications can be created with NetBeans . Other tools include SuperWaba , which can be used to build Symbian 7.0 and 7.0s programs using Java. Nokia S60 phones can also run Python scripts when
1372-461: The device, in language packs : a set of languages which cover those commonly spoken in the area where a device variant is to be sold. All language packs have in common English, or a locally relevant dialect of it. The last release, Symbian Belle, supports these 48 languages, with [dialects], and (scripts): Symbian Belle marks the introduction of Kazakh, while Korean is no longer supported. From 2010, Symbian switched to using standard C++ with Qt as
1421-453: The interpreter Python for S60 is installed, with a custom made API that allows for Bluetooth support and such. There is also an interactive console to allow the user to write Python scripts directly from the phone. Once developed, Symbian applications need to find a route to customers' mobile phones. They are packaged in SIS files which may be installed over-the-air, via PC connect, Bluetooth or on
1470-426: The largest codebase moved to Free software in history. However, some important components within Symbian OS were licensed from third parties, which prevented the foundation from publishing the full source under EPL immediately; instead much of the source was published under a more restrictive Symbian Foundation License (SFL) and access to the full source code was limited to member companies only, although membership
1519-473: The main SDK, which can be used with either Qt Creator or Carbide.c++ . Qt supports the older Symbian/S60 3rd (starting with Feature Pack 1, a.k.a. S60 3.1) and Symbian/S60 5th Edition (a.k.a. S60 5.01b) releases, as well as the new Symbian platform. It also supports Maemo and MeeGo , Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Alternative application development can be done using Python (see Python for S60 ), Adobe Flash Lite or Java ME . Symbian OS previously used
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1568-560: The maker's website too. The SDKs contain documentation, the header files and library files needed to build Symbian OS software, and a Windows-based emulator ("WINS"). Up until Symbian OS version 8, the SDKs also included a version of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) compiler (a cross-compiler ) needed to build software to work on the device. Symbian OS 9 and the Symbian platform use a new application binary interface (ABI) and needed
1617-519: The native app ecosystem for Symbian not to evolve to a scale later reached by Apple's App Store or Android's Google Play. By contrast, iPhone OS (renamed iOS in 2010) and Android had comparatively simpler design, provided easier and much more centralized infrastructure to create and obtain third-party apps, offered certain developer tools and programming languages with a manageable level of complexity, and having abilities such as multitasking and graphics to meet future consumer demands. Although Symbian
1666-552: The new high-level declarative UI and scripting framework for creating visually rich touchscreen interfaces that allowed development for both Symbian and MeeGo ; it would be delivered to existing Symbian^3 devices as a Qt update. When more applications gradually feature a user interface reworked in Qt, the legacy S60 framework (AVKON) would be deprecated and no longer included with new devices at some point, thus breaking binary compatibility with older S60 applications. Symbian^3 and earlier have
1715-496: The other being the user interface (as middleware ), which provides the graphical shell atop the OS. The most prominent user interface was the S60 (formerly Series 60) platform built by Nokia, first released in 2002 and powering most Nokia Symbian devices. UIQ was a competing user interface mostly used by Motorola and Sony Ericsson that focused on pen -based devices, rather than a traditional keyboard interface from S60. Another interface
1764-551: The other, charged-for, editions. Microsoft Visual Studio 2003 and 2005 are also supported via the Carbide.vs plugin. Symbian devices can also be programmed using Python , Java ME , Flash Lite , Ruby , .NET , Web Runtime (WRT) Widgets and Standard C / C++ . Visual Basic programmers can use NS Basic to develop apps for S60 3rd Edition and UIQ 3 devices. In the past, Visual Basic , Visual Basic .NET , and C# development for Symbian were possible through AppForge Crossfire,
1813-536: The platform development, regularly releasing its development to the public repository. Symbian was intended to be developed by a community led by the Symbian Foundation , which was first announced in June 2008 and which officially launched in April 2009. Its objective was to publish the source code for the entire Symbian platform under the EPL. This was accomplished on 4 February 2010; the Symbian Foundation reported this event to be
1862-531: The platform, S60 became the Foundation's favoured interface and UIQ stopped development. The touchscreen -focused Symbian^1 (or S60 5th Edition) was created as a result in 2009. Symbian^2 (based on MOAP) was used by NTT DoCoMo, one of the members of the Foundation, for the Japanese market. Symbian^3 was released in 2010 as the successor to S60 5th Edition, by which time it became fully free software . The transition from
1911-430: The smartphone OS then ( Palm OS and Windows Mobile were comparatively small players), Symbian reached as high as 67% of the global smartphone market share in 2006. Despite its sizable market share then, Symbian was at various stages difficult to develop for: First (at around early-to-mid-2000s) due to the complexity of then the only native programming languages Open Programming Language (OPL) and Symbian C++ , and of
1960-474: The techniques, developed for the much more restricted mobile hardware and compilers of the 1990s, caused extra complexity in source code because programmers are required to concentrate on low-level details instead of more application-specific features. As of 2010, these issues are no longer the case when using standard C++, with the Qt SDK. Symbian C++ programming is commonly done with an integrated development environment (IDE). For earlier versions of Symbian OS,
2009-642: The time of publication were planning to abandon the platform. By 5 April 2011, Nokia ceased to make free any portion of the Symbian software and reduced its collaboration to a small group of preselected partners in Japan. Source code released under the original EPL remains available in third party repositories, including a full set of all public code from the project as of 7 December 2010. On 22 June 2011, Nokia had made an agreement with Accenture for an outsourcing program. Accenture will provide Symbian-based software development and support services to Nokia through 2016. The transfer of Nokia employees to Accenture
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2058-471: Was completed on 30 September 2011 and 2,800 Nokia employees became Accenture employees as of October 2011. Nokia had terminated its support of software development and maintenance for Symbian with effect from 1 January 2014, thereafter refusing to publish new or changed Symbian applications or content in the Nokia Store and terminating its 'Symbian Signed' program for software certification. Symbian has had
2107-472: Was designated as the successor to Symbian OS, following the official launch of the Symbian Foundation in April 2009. The Symbian platform was officially made available as Free software in February 2010. Nokia became the major contributor to Symbian's code, since it then possessed the development resources for both the Symbian OS core and the user interface. Since then Nokia maintained its own code repository for
2156-433: Was difficult to program for, this issue could be worked around by creating Java Mobile Edition apps, ostensibly under a "write once, run anywhere" slogan. This wasn't always the case because of fragmentation due to different device screen sizes and differences in levels of Java ME support on various devices. In June 2008, Nokia announced the acquisition of Symbian Ltd. , and a new independent non-profit organization called
2205-659: Was losing ground to iOS and Android quickly, eventually falling behind Android in Q42010. Stephen Elop was appointed the CEO of Nokia in September 2010, and on 11 February 2011, he announced a partnership with Microsoft that would see Nokia adopt Windows Phone as its primary smartphone platform, and Symbian would be gradually phased out, together with MeeGo. As a consequence, Symbian's market share fell, and application developers for Symbian dropped out rapidly. Research in June 2011 indicated that over 39% of mobile developers using Symbian at
2254-463: Was officially the last Symbian smartphone from Nokia. NTT DoCoMo continued releasing OPP(S) (Operator Pack Symbian, successor of MOAP) devices in Japan, which still act as middleware on top of Symbian. Phones running this include the F-07F [ ja ] from Fujitsu and SH-07F [ ja ] from Sharp in 2014. Symbian originated from EPOC32 , an operating system created by Psion in
2303-633: Was open to any organisation. Also, the Free software Qt framework was introduced to Symbian in 2010, as the primary upgrade path to MeeGo , which was to be the next mobile operating system to replace and supplant Symbian on high-end devices; Qt was by its nature free and very convenient to develop with. Several other frameworks were deployed to the platform, among them Standard C and C++, Python , Ruby , and Adobe Flash Lite . IDEs and SDKs were developed and then released for free, and application software (app) development for Symbian picked up. In November 2010,
2352-454: Was planned to introduce a new GUI library framework specifically designed for a touch-based interface, known as "UI Extensions for Mobile" or UIEMO (internal project name "Orbit"), which was built on top of Qt Widget; a preview was released in January 2010, however in October 2010 Nokia announced that Orbit/UIEMO had been cancelled. Nokia later recommended that developers use Qt Quick with QML ,
2401-471: Was the MOAP (S) platform from carrier NTT DoCoMo in the Japanese market. Applications for these different interfaces were not compatible with each other, despite each being built atop Symbian OS. Nokia became the largest shareholder of Symbian Ltd. in 2004 and purchased the entire company in 2008. The non-profit Symbian Foundation was then created to make a royalty-free successor to Symbian OS. Seeking to unify
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