Pvr Tv 7131 Driver Windows 7. Home Screen of Nokia Belle Feature Pack 2 (Last version of Symbian) (1998–2008) (2008–11) (2010–11) on behalf of (2011–13) OS family Working state Discontinued Source model, previously (2010–11) Initial release 5 June 1997; 20 years ago ( 1997-06-05) (as EPOC32) Nokia Belle Feature Pack 2 / 2 October 2012 Multi-lingual Update method 65,,,, Platforms, type Real-time, Default (from 2009), previously licensed under Official website (defunct as of May 2014), (defunct as of 2009–10) Symbian was a (OS) and designed for. Symbian was originally developed as a OS for in 1998 by Symbian OS was a descendant of 's, and runs exclusively on, although an unreleased port existed. Symbian was used by many major mobile phone brands, like,,, and above all. It was also prevalent in Japan by brands including, and. 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, as Google and its partners achieved wide adoption. Symbian OS was essentially a shell system and required an additional (as ) to form a complete operating system. Symbian OS became prominent from the (formerly Series 60) platform built by Nokia, first released in 2002 and powering most Nokia smartphones.