High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Symbian Foundation is a non-profit organisation that stewards the Symbian platform; an operating system for mobile phones, based on Symbian OS, which was previously owned and licensed by Symbian Ltd.. Symbian Foundation has never directly developed the platform, but evangelised, co-ordinated and ensured compatibility. It also provided key services to its members and the community such as collecting, building and distributing Symbian source code. During its operational phase (from 2009 to 2010), it also provided: