A custom ROM gives the Nokia N8 a second life, fixing Symbian’s flaws and making the iconic camera phone surprisingly usable again in 2026.

A fan-made firmware called Reborn is giving the 2010 Nokia N8 a practical second life in 2026, with updated web certificates, easier app installs, and a new way to browse classic Symbian software.

Do you remember Nokia phones, with their Symbian OS? Dead and gone, you might think, but even they have dedicated enthusiasts ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ewan Spence covers the digital worlds of mobile technology. In all the delightful sentiments about renewals and resolutions, the ...

There was a time, long ago, when Nokia dominated the mobile phone market, but sadly, the company failed to evolve with the times. It has been close to a decade since the last high-end Nokia Symbian ...

Nokia said it will continue to sell smartphones using its legacy Symbian software for a long time after its first phones using Microsoft's Windows go on sale. Symbian is due to be replaced by ...

The Symbian Foundation plans to launch a publishing platform later this year aimed at helping developers to get their programs into mobile application stores. Unlike some of the other popular mobile ...

Symbian chief executive David Levin kicked off the company's annual developer conference on Wednesday with a call to arms, with Microsoft as the clear -- if unstated -- public enemy number one. "No ...

In the largest migration from a proprietary to an open source model ever, the most popular OS for mobile phones (over 330 million phones) in the world is now open source. The Symbian mobile OS which ...

Symbian, the smartphone operating system developer, is to revamp its enterprise strategy at its annual developer conference beginning on Tuesday. The company is also launching an open-source software ...

Symbian has completed the process of open sourcing its entire code base, in advance of its June deadline. While the release is ahead of schedule, the first phones — expected to be out early next year ...