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Intel collaborates with Nokia and Symbian
The Intel Corporation, Nokia Corporation and Symbian Ltd. announced today
a collaboration to bring smartphones based on the Nokia Series 60 Platform
to market using Intel technology, as part of Intel's recent membership
in the Nokia Series 60 Product Creation Community.
The Series 60 Platform, built on Symbian OS, is one of the world's leading
smartphone platforms. It is licensed by some of the foremost mobile phones
manufacturers including Lenovo, LG Electronics, Nokia, Panasonic, Samsung,
Sendo and Siemens. Support for a large color screen, easy-to-use interface
and extensive suite of applications make this software platform ideally
suited to support new mobile services such as email, browsing and streaming.
As part of its new role as a member of the Series 60 Product Creation
Community, Intel will complement the Series 60 Platform by providing high
performance, low power processing to enable mobile browsing, multimedia
messaging and content downloading, as well as a host of personal information
management and telephony applications. The Series 60 Platform is the latest
smartphone user interface to be supported by Intel technology.
Also, Intel and Symbian are investing in the co-development of a reference
platform. The development agreement focuses on building the first 3G reference
platform that utilizes both Intel's and Symbian's expertise in smartphone
technology. The reference platform will enable mobile phone manufacturers
to create differentiated handsets while significantly reducing development
time - speeding the delivery of new phones to market.
"The next generation of handsets for 3G networks will require a platform
approach that couples low power and high performance with robust application
development," said Sam Arditi, Vice President and General Manager
of Intel's Cellular and Handheld Group. "Intel's wireless platforms
combine leading edge hardware with Intel's decades of experience in creating
application ecosystems for data networks. Working with Nokia and Symbian
to help bring Series 60-based devices to market means that developers
and phone manufacturers will have new compelling tools to deliver on the
promise of 3G."
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