Nokia today announced the immediate availability of Carbide.c++ Developer Edition and Carbide.c++ Professional Edition, two powerful, next-generation developer suites that will help drive the growth of smartphone application development for Symbian OS(TM), the industry leading operating system for millions of mobile devices in the market today.

ESPOO, Finland, September 21 -- Designed to significantly increase productivity by addressing developer-specific needs from rapid prototyping to performance tuning, Carbide.c++ Developer and Professional Edition tools help mobile developers to more easily build the most advanced system, middleware and application software for Symbian OS smartphones.

Based on the Eclipse open-source framework for software tool innovation, Carbide.c++ tools support developers working with the latest version of Symbian handsets, including those based on UIQ, MOAP and the world's leading smartphone platform, S60 3rd Edition, licensed by the foremost device manufacturers in the marketplace, including LG Electronics, Lenovo, Nokia and Samsung.

"Nokia is very excited to deliver these two powerful new Carbide.c++ tools to help increase developer productivity as they build advanced system software and the next generation of applications for the tens of millions of Symbian smartphones already in use today," said Heikki Koivu, Director of Nokia's Development Platform Tools. "The quicker time to market enabled by these cutting-edge tools for development, testing, debugging and performance analysis for Symbian applications translates into increased business opportunities for developers."

Carbide.c++ Developer and Professional feature Nokia's new Carbide.c++ UI Designer, which enables developers to quickly produce Symbian applications with dramatic and stylish user interfaces. Featuring a unique set of graphical tools, the UI Designer provides developers with an intuitive UI Wizard to select, initialize and easily edit application interface views. The UI Designer also includes palette of drag-and-drop design elements used to customize the interface.

Incorporating Nokia's advanced application debugging architecture, both Carbide.c++ tools also feature direct On-Device Debug, enabling smartphone application and system software code debugging in full run-mode on the device itself, for greater accuracy than with emulator debugging and with significant developer productivity gains.

Carbide.c++ Professional Edition provides added features for developers who build or integrate high-performance, high quality software. Professional Edition's On-Device Debug contains additional enhancements that enable debug of system-level processes and tasks on prototype devices. A powerful Performance Investigator tool provides a real-time graphical view of application performance on pre-production smartphones and enables highly selective targeting and collection of data for code troubleshooting and detailed reporting and analysis.

"Providing visibility into what is going on inside the phone significantly enhances developer productivity and the On-Device Debugger and Performance Investigator tools found in Carbide.c++ have allowed our development team to quickly spot and resolve bugs while optimizing the performance of our code," said Matt Millar, Practice Director Mobile and Devices, Adobe Consulting. "Carbide.c++ has enabled Adobe Consulting to develop and complete the integration of Flash technology in new user interfaces and services more effectively."

"Nokia and Symbian have partnered on Carbide.c++ to increase the productivity of developers working with the latest version of Symbian OS and enable faster time to market for Symbian applications," said Bruce Carney, Head of Developer Marketing and Services, Symbian. "We recognize the importance of making quality tools like Carbide.c++ available to mobile developers and look forward to working with Nokia on future versions of the product."

Nokia's Carbide.c++ family of developer tools combine the strengths of Nokia leadership in mobile products and development resources, Symbian's expertise in mobile application development, and the dynamic developer community that has rapidly congregated around the Eclipse IDE. A strategic developer member of the Eclipse Foundation, Nokia is actively participating in the open-source Eclipse CDT Project and its contribution of enhanced debugging functionality to the Eclipse IDE is designed to stimulate greater participation by the Eclipse community in building C/C++ development tools.

Nokia is providing a clear and consistent migration path to Carbide.c++ Developer and Professional Edition for developers already using versions of its CodeWarrior for Symbian OS suite of tools, enabling developers working with CodeWarrior Personal Edition to easily adapt to using Carbide.c++ Developer Edition, and those currently using CodeWarrior Professional to naturally migrate to Carbide.c++ Professional.

Carbide.c++ Developer Edition and Carbide.c++ Professional Edition are currently available for purchase for 299 EUR and 1,299 EUR respectfully. CodeWarrior customers may also be eligible to upgrade their software seats to Carbide. Please contact for more details on upgrades. Further information on Carbide.c++ Developer and Professional Edition tools, and other members of Nokia's Carbide family of developer tools, can be found online at www.forum.nokia.com/carbide.

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