The company currently employs around 720 personnel in 11 offices. Symbian is a privately-owned company. The announced Device Families are reference designs on which mobile computing and cellular phone manufacturers can base their devices. Each Device Family is being designed for optimal flexibility, giving Consumer Electronics manufacturers broad scope for differentiation and innovation in user interfaces, hardware designs and connectivity. In addition, Smartphones have rich information browsing capabilities and offer significant opportunities for both enterprise and consumer computing applications.
Communicators are portable, information-centric devices with voice capabilities.
Through its Device Family reference designs for Communicators, Symbian is focused on helping device manufacturers provide well-positioned products designed to meet the requirements of the mainstream user. The Symbian Developer Network is the developers' support network for Symbian's technology.