New Symbian OS v9.5 brings higher performance at mass market costs
Written by Symbian
Monday, 26 March 2007
CTIA Wireless, Orlando, USA and London, UK – 26 March 2007 – Symbian
Ltd. today announced Symbian OS v9.5, the latest evolution of the
world’s leading operating system for smartphones. Symbian OS v9.5
brings high performance features designed for richer consumer and
enterprise experiences as well as significant savings to phone build
costs and time to market, delivering a truly scalable operating system
for the global market.
Symbian OS v9.5 is the result of continued deep collaboration with
Symbian OS licensees, the world’s leading handset vendors, and its user
interface platform partners including MOAP, S60 and UIQ. With high
smartphone growth in developing markets and as mass market requirements
from handset manufacturers continue to rise, Symbian’s addressable
market is broadening across segments and regions.
Symbian OS v9.5, backward compatible with all versions of the v9 family, includes the following key enhancements:
Higher performance for lower hardware cost
Symbian OS v9.5 delivers performance improvements with reductions in
requirements on memory, processor and battery, enabling smartphones
based on Symbian OS v9.5 to run on the same hardware as feature phones.
Faster time to market
Symbian is continuing to improve time-to-market for handset vendors,
system integrators and developers. Symbian OS v9.5 introduces new
hardware adaptation interfaces for digital TV and location based
services (LBS) making it cheaper and easier to bring popular services
to the mass market.
Designed for richer user experiences:
Multimedia
Symbian smartphones based on Symbian OS v9.5 will support rich
multimedia experiences with advanced camera features similar to
standalone digital cameras with 35 new features including image
orientation following tilt sensor, preset image enhancements,
digital/optical zoom, auto focus spots, panorama stitch, image
distortion correction auto-focus such as red-eye reduction. With
improved seamless connectivity to home computers, enabling the easy
transfer of music, videos and images, one smartphone can replace
several devices. In addition, with support for multi-standard digital
TV (DVB-H, ISDB-T) and standardised LBS, the Symbian smartphone will
bring true convergence to consumers worldwide.
Enterprise
New Symbian smartphones will enable users to be more productive and
save costs with Wifi-3G connection roaming. Professionals will gain the
advantage of having services such as push-email and VoIP run over WiFi
when in the office and automatically switch to 3G when on the move. In
addition, real-time networking ensures that VoIP is not interrupted
when other IP-based services, such as web browsing or push email, make
a connection.
Smartphone lifestyle
With over 70% market share, Symbian continues to provide
flexibility and choice to leading handset vendors who sell Symbian
smartphones to over 250 network operators worldwide. The introduction
of Brahmic script in Symbian OS v9.5 which extends Symbian OS support
of languages to cover 99% of the world’s countries, the support for
global standards including HSPDA, HSUPA and digital TV, makes Symbian
the only true global mobile operating system powering both mid-range
and high-end mobile phones.
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