# Symbian UI which has just being powered by Ruby

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/symbian-ui-which-has-just-being-powered-by-ruby/76690>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [November 20, 2006, 3:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/symbian-ui-which-has-just-being-powered-by-ruby/76690 "2006-11-20T15:15:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![zoat](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/f475e1/32.png) [@zoat](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/zoat)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 3:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/symbian-ui-which-has-just-being-powered-by-ruby/76690/1 "2006-11-20T15:15:52Z")

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As Sony Ericsson has just bought Symbian UI(see  
[Sony Ericsson buys Symbian UI • The Register](http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/07/sony_ericsson_buys_uiq/)), event  
which coincides with the Ruby release for Symbian OS(see  
[http://developer.symbian.com/main/tools/opensrc/ruby/index.jsp](http://developer.symbian.com/main/tools/opensrc/ruby/index.jsp)). Ruby  
for Symbian OS brings the power of the Ruby programming language to the  
Symbian ecosystem, which is also being release to the Open Source  
software developer community. Ruby language will be the booster of  
productivity for mobile applications.

FURTHER INFO:  
Symbian OS

> **[Symbian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbian_OS)**
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> Symbian is a discontinued mobile operating system (OS) and computing platform designed for smartphones. It was originally developed as 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 pr The...

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**Author:** ![zoat](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/f475e1/32.png) [@zoat](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/zoat)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 3:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/symbian-ui-which-has-just-being-powered-by-ruby/76690/2 "2006-11-20T15:21:55Z")

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…just correcting the title to  
Sony Ericsson buys Symbian UI which has just being powered by Ruby  
zoat escreveu: