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Symbian Limited announced the availability of Symbian OS v9.3, the latest evolution of the world’s leading smartphone operating system. New update builds on the success of the v9 family as a robust, secure, open and standards-based OS for smartphones. It includes incremental enhancements in line with market requirements related to phone performance and reducing time-to-market for handset vendors and network operators’ cost-effective deployment of revenue-generating services, content and applications.
Symbian OS v9.3 is fully backwards compatible with previous versions in the v9 family. Symbian OS licensees currently have phones based on Symbian OS v9.3 in development, with product launches anticipated in 2007. New features include:
Improved phone performance
- Shorter start-up times for phones and key applications
- Improved memory management resulting in more responsive applications and phone features ensuring smartphones work as quickly with better quality features as mid-range phones
Reduced development and ownership cost, and time to market
- New development tools
- Symbian OS awareness for the Eclipse/CDT IDE framework and Nokia’s Carbide.c++ Development Tools for Symbian OS v9.3 phones
- Configuration tools to easily create and customise Symbian OS variants
- The Symbian Verification Suite to support compatibility and phone integration for creating Symbian OS variants, reducing time taken to customize phones for operators targeting different market segments
- A fully searchable on-line edition of the Symbian OS Library including a significant amount of new content
- Backwards compatibility from v9.1, easy migration for phone vendors, technology and third party software providers
- Reference design for Symbian OS v9.3 with Freescale and Nokia S60
- Hindi and Vietnamese language support for improved market coverage
Support for new hardware
- Native support for WiFi
- USB 2.0 on-the-go, allowing faster device connectivity
Support for key operator services and requirements
- Firmware over the air (FOTA) provisioning, FOTA allows network operators to provide OTA software upgrades or fixes lowering cost of ownership
- HSDPA support
- Introduction of IPSec for UMA service (Voice over IP)
- Improved 3GPP R5 support
- Native support for Push To Talk
- Java JSR 248 support
About The Author
Stefan Constantinescu
Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.
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