| Intel
joins Symbian Platinum partner program
Posted: 7 May 2003
Intel Corporation and Symbian announced today that Intel has joined
the Symbian Platinum Partner Program.
Intel will also start providing a new software development kit
(SDK) that includes Symbian OS version 7.0 to help developers accelerate
the design process of data-enabled cellular phones and applications
running on processors based on the Intel® XScale microarchitecture.
Symbian develops and licenses Symbian OS, the global industry standard
operating system for advanced mobile phones to the world’s
leading handset manufacturers, which account for over 80 percent
of worldwide mobile phone sales.
“The wireless industry is in the midst of a significant shift
from simple voice-only phones to data-enabled smartphones that combine
communications, wireless Internet access and computing functionality,”
said Tony Sica, vice president of Intel’s Wireless Communications
and Computing Group and director of marketing.
“Intel becoming a Symbian Platinum Partner is the result
of close co-operation between our two companies and a shared vision
to help bring data applications and services to mobile phones.”
As part of the Platinum Partner Program, Intel has access to a
range of commercial services, as well as access to Symbian OS source
code and Symbian’s Partner Support Team.
Intel and Symbian worked together to optimise Symbian OS version
7.0 to provide rich multimedia and wireless capabilities for Intel
XScale microarchitecture.
The respective global ecosystems that support Intel and Symbian
technologies help provide system integrators, original equipment
manufacturers, original design manufacturers and independent software
vendors with the hardware and software assistance they need to bring
products to market more quickly.
The new SDK will be available on the Intel DBPXA250 development
system with the optimised Symbian OS version 7.0 board support package
to mobile phone manufacturers and software developers building products
using the Intel PXA255 and Intel PXA26x processors.
The development systems will include a number of optimised development
tools including a compiler and the OS aware Intel XScale microarchitecture
XDB JTAG Debugger for Symbian OS. Intel also provides support for
wireless technologies like GSM/GPRS, 802.11, and Bluetooth.“Intel
becoming a Symbian Platinum partner reflects the excellent on-going
relationship between Symbian and Intel.
This relationship will help provide our licensees with ‘state
of the art’ solutions optimised for Symbian OS, and help to
bring a variety of feature-rich multimedia solutions to market,”
said Gilles Allain, vice president of partnerships and alliances
at Symbian.
More information on how developers can start evaluating Symbian
OS and its integrated Intel application support can be found at
http://developer.intel.com.
Iinformation on the Symbian Developer Network can be found at http://www.symbian.com/developer.
Information about the Intel PCA Developer Network and the Intel
DBPXA250 development system can be found at http://www.intel.com/pca.
About Symbian
Symbian is a software licensing company which develops and licenses
Symbian OS, the global open industry standard operating system for
advanced, data-enabled mobile phones.
Symbian has licensed Symbian OS to the world's leading mobile phone
manufacturers including Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, Siemens and Sony
Ericsson.
Publicly announced products based on Symbian OS include the BenQ
P30, Samsung SGH-D700, Siemens SX-1, NTT DoCoMo FOMA F2051 built
by Fujitsu, Sony Ericsson P800 Smartphone, Nokia 9200 Communicator
range as well as the 7650, 3650 and N-Gage.
Symbian has its global headquarters in London, United Kingdom with
development sites in Europe and Asia. Symbian’s shareholders
are Ericsson, Panasonic, Motorola, Nokia, Psion, Samsung, Siemens
and Sony Ericsson.
For further information about Symbian, please see www.symbian.com
About Intel
Intel, the world's largest chip maker, is also a leading manufacturer
of computer, networking and communications products. Additional
information about Intel is available at www.intel.com/pressroom.
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