Links
The links page grouped the sites the project considered worth knowing into five categories: Symbian, Programming, News, Friends and Forums. It is preserved below as a record of what the Series 60 community looked like from the inside in the mid 2000s.
Almost none of these sites still exist. They are listed here by name rather than by link, because a link to a dead domain is worse than useless — expired addresses are routinely re-registered and pointed somewhere else entirely. Where these sites survive at all, they survive at the Internet Archive.
Archive notice. Symbian Toys was an independent hobbyist software project for the Symbian Series 60 platform, which Nokia discontinued in 2013. These pages preserve the project's own documentation as it was published. The software is no longer distributed here, and no support was ever offered for it. Device and platform names appear for identification only; the project was never affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to any device manufacturer.
Symbian
Free Nokia Themes · Symbian Freak · 3-Lib Series 60 Freeware · My-Symbian · All About Symbian · Symbian Free
These were the download libraries and news sites of the platform. 3-Lib in particular was one of the oldest freeware libraries in mobile software, and All About Symbian was the closest thing the platform had to a paper of record.
Programming
Forum Nokia · NewLC · Symbian API · Symbian Programming Tutorial Blog
Forum Nokia was the manufacturer's own developer programme — the one that elected the Champions the project's front page mentioned. NewLC was the independent counterpart, a community-run resource for Symbian C++ that filled the gaps the official documentation left, of which there were many.
News
POC · Portel · MobileBlog · Punto-Informatico · alicell
A mix of mobile-specific outlets and general Italian technology press, reflecting where the project itself was based.
Friends
BayXSonic · P@sco · Babi · Geno
Personal sites of people the author worked with. P@sco appears here and again on the artwork credits page as the artist behind much of the software's graphics.
Forums
Quelli Che Il Cell · Serie60 · Nokioteca · My-Cellular · Cellular Magazine
The forums were where the actual work happened. When the RomPatcher+ page declined to offer technical support, it pointed readers at two of these — one Italian-language, one English-language — as the right places to ask instead. That is a fair description of how support worked across the whole platform: not from vendors, but from a few thousand people in a handful of forums.
What happened to all of it
The Symbian Foundation was wound down at the end of 2010, Nokia moved to another platform, and Symbian was formally discontinued in 2013. The community dispersed with it: the download libraries went offline, the forums closed or emptied, and the developer programmes shut. This page is one of the few places the shape of that network is still written down in one piece, which is why it has been kept rather than quietly dropped from the restoration.
How software actually reached people
There was no store. A program written by an individual reached its users through exactly the chain this page describes: it was announced on the author's own site, mirrored by one or two of the freeware libraries, discussed in the forums, and passed between people directly as an installation file over Bluetooth or on a memory card. Every link in that chain was run by volunteers or by small independent operators, and none of it was indexed by anything except search engines and word of mouth.
That model has consequences visible throughout this archive. It is why the compatibility lists on the product pages are so long and so specific — nobody could tell you whether a program ran on your handset except someone who had tried it. It is why the FAQ pages exist at all, standing in for a support function that did not otherwise exist. And it is why the same few forum names recur: for a great many users those forums were the platform's software ecosystem.
Language and geography
The grouping above also records something about where the project sat. The news outlets are largely Italian, the friends are individuals, and two of the five forums are Italian-language. Symbian's community was unusually multilingual for its period — a consequence of the platform's strength in Europe and Asia rather than in North America — and this shows up directly in the software: Guardian 2.1 shipped in ten languages, and its release announcement treated that as the headline news.