Symbian Ltd. today announced that Symbian OS is the first mobile OS to support the new ARM Cortex-A8 processor currently running on TI OMAP3430, the first applications processor in 65nm technology. The technology enables significantly higher Symbian smartphone performance whilst maintaining greater power efficiency and lowering development costs for handset manufacturers.
Symbian OS is also the first mobile OS to be fully scalable across all ARM processor architectures from the ARM Cortex-A8 processor, through mainstream ARM11 family of processors, to cost-effective ARM9 family of processors. The ARM Cortex-A8 processor, which is based on ARM v7 architecture, is the highest performance most power-efficient applications processor developed by ARM to date and is designed to enrich mobile phones with applications that formerly required the consumption levels of a PC.