Symbian OS runs on Intel Atom platform
Symbian OS is a proprietary operating system developed for mobile phones which is now most commonly found in 2.5G and 3G mobile phones. Nokia now privately owns Symbian since December 2008.
Months ago, Android came out from nowhere and gave Symbian a fair competition on mobile OS. Later on it impressed many people when they proved that Android runs on Netbooks pretty well, and actually some netbook manufacturers are considering Android for default OS when it completely stabilizes.
Now Symbian OS doesn’t just sit and do nothing about it. While Symbian runs exclusively on ARM processors, it has an x86 port available which means it can run on another platform. Symbian gave it a try and proved that it really can. However, I’m not sure if Symbian OS can jump on for netbooks just yet, but at least I’m pretty sure that I haven’t heard news that Symbian OS can do normal computing before.
Anyway, does this new discovery make the thin gap between netbooks and mobile phones even thinner?
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