Observed arrival · 2026-11-15
NeoSymbian puts a 2010 phone OS on a Pixel 3a XL
An open-source project ports the Symbian EKA2 kernel to 64-bit ARM, retaining the original user side and adding a touch interface written in Rust.
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- The project keeps the 2010 user side in 32-bit mode while porting the kernel to AArch64 with 32-bit pointers.
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The project separates timing-critical drivers, described as C++ kernel work, from protocol logic placed in Rust on the user side. Its homepage names Apache-2.0 for NeoSymbian code and EPL-1.0 for Symbian source, and explicitly disclaims affiliation with Nokia, Accenture, the former Symbian Foundation, and Google.
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