Symbian Smartphone Show has started yesterday in London and we have some news to report. Here’s what’s happening:
- First of all, Symbian Foundation is now stronger for 12 more companies — including ARM, CieNET, Flander, FUJISOFT, Huawei, Inmote, InnoPath Software, Red Bend, Scalado, Symsource, TRANGO Virtual Processors and Visa — all which added their endorsements to the forty companies already announced as supporters of the foundation initiative. (release)
- ARM has announced ARM Profiler for Symbian OS to enable mobile application developers to add enhanced features and reduce power consumption. (release)
- Symbian Analysis Workbench (SAW), a pre-packaged set of Eclipse-based tools, has been released to make development easier and faster by significantly reducing the time and effort needed to fix defects and optimise code via graphical views integrated into the Carbide C++ development environment. (release)
- Two new books for developers were announced: Multimedia on Symbian OS – Inside the Convergence Device, and Common Design Patterns for Symbian OS – The Foundations of Mobile Software. (release)
- Along with fixed-mobile convergence solution provider, Cicero, Symbian announced a proof-of-concept for voice mobility across multiple networks on FreeWay – Symbian’s IP communications architecture. The two companies collaborated to enable Voice Call Continuity (VCC) and roaming between circuit switched networks and all-IP based IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) networks including Long Term Evolution (LTE) and WiMAX. (release)
- Winners of Symbian 2008 Student Essay Contest were announced. The essay theme was “the next wave of smartphone innovation”. Numerous thought provoking and intelligent entries were received, but only 10 winners went home with 1,000 GBP of prize money. (release)
Other companies participating at the Symbian Smartphone Show also had some interesting announcements, but that’s another story…