Nokia and Texas Instruments Expand Agreement to Boost Smart Phone Market.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers 3GSM World Congress 2003 CANNES, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 18, 2003 Texas Instruments See TI. (company) Texas Instruments - (TI) A US electronics company. A TI engineer, Jack Kilby invented the integrated circuit in 1958. Three TI employees left the company in 1982 to start Compaq. and Nokia Jointly Work for the Perfect Fit Between Series 60 Platform and TI's OMAP OMAP Office of Medical Assistance Programs (Oregon Department of Human Services) OMAP Open Multimedia Applications Platform (Texas Instruments semiconductor operating system) (TM) Processors and Platform; Live Demonstrations at 3GSM World Congress Nokia (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :NOK NOK In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Norwegian Krone. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. ), and Texas Instruments Incorporated (NYSE:TXN TXN Texas Instruments (stock symbol) TXN Transaction (databases) TXN Tunxi, China (Airport Code) TXN Tarxien (postal locality, Malta) ) (TI) announced today that they have extended their relationship through an agreement on Nokia's Series 60 Platform and Texas Instrument's industry-leading OMAP application processors. As per the agreement, Texas Instruments intends to optimize the execution of the Series 60 platform on TI's OMAP processors and platform. Significant optimization work has already been completed and the resulting prototype will be demonstrated for the first time this week during the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, France. The demonstration features TI's Innovator(TM) Development Kit for the Series 60 Platform, which includes a color screen, a keypad A small keyboard or supplementary keyboard keys; for example, the keys on a calculator or the number/cursor cluster on a computer keyboard. See programmable keypad. and all other components required by Series 60 based smart phones. "Time-to-market is a critical component for any successful handset program," said Niklas Savander, senior vice president, Nokia Mobile Software. "The close collaboration with leading semiconductor companies, such as Texas Instruments, will enable Series 60 Platform licensees to bring phones to market faster. Moreover by tapping into the capabilities of TI's OMAP(TM) platform, the end result will be smart phones with higher performance and advanced functionalities. "Combining technologies from mobile industry leaders, Nokia and TI, will speed the introduction of 2.5G and 3G Smart Phones," said Alain Mutricy, TI vice president, OMAP Platform general manager, Wireless Terminal Business Unit "The high-performance and the low power consumption of the complete system solutions will also enable application developers to fully exploit the possibilities offered by 2.5 and 3G services." TI delivers the building blocks wireless manufacturers need to bring high-performance, power-efficient products to market -- including complete wireless terminal chipsets and reference designs with protocol stacks The set of protocols used in a communications network. A protocol stack is a prescribed hierarchy of software layers, starting from the application layer at the top (the source of the data being sent) to the data link layer at the bottom (transmitting the bits on the wire). and OMAP(TM) application processors. The OMAP platform is comprised of high performance, power-efficient processors a robust software infrastructure and comprehensive support network for the rapid development of differentiated 2.5G and 3G multimedia-enhanced mobile devices and software applications. TI's OMAP processors provide full compatibility with Series 60 Platform and Symbian OS An open standard operating system for data-enabled mobile phones (smartphones) from Symbian Ltd., London (www.symbian.com). It supports Java, PC synchronization, Bluetooth local wireless access and GPRS packet-switched data. (TM), allowing developers to create advanced applications in a proven environment. The TI Innovator Development Kit for the Series 60 Platform enables application developers and handset manufacturers to simulate and validate their applications in a close-to-final mobile terminal environment. The development kit is an ideal tool for building on and demonstrating high-performance applications and smart phones on a battery-operated handheld. The Series 60 Platform is a software product for smart phones that Nokia licenses to other mobile-handset manufacturers. Manufacturers will be able to integrate the Series 60 into their own phone designs running on top of Symbian OS. The Series 60 Platform includes mobile browsing, multimedia messaging and content downloading, as well as a host of personal information management and telephony applications. In addition, it includes a complete and modifiable user interface -- all designed to run on top of Symbian OS, an operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. for advanced, data enabled mobile phones. In a related announcement, Nokia launched the Series 60 Product Creation Community designed to accelerate the development and acceptance of standards-based smart phones. Through the agreement TI becomes the first semiconductor member of the community. About Nokia Nokia is the world leader in mobile communications. Backed by its experience, innovation, user-friendliness and secure solutions, the company has become the leading supplier of mobile phones and a leading supplier of mobile, fixed broadband and IP networks. By adding mobility to the Internet Nokia creates new opportunities for companies and further enriches the daily lives of people. Nokia is a broadly held company with listings on six major exchanges. About TI Texas Instruments Incorporated provides innovative DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive and analog technologies to meet our customers' real world signal processing See DSP. requirements. In addition to Semiconductor, the company's businesses include Sensors & Controls, and Educational & Productivity Solutions. TI is headquartered in Dallas, Texas “Dallas” redirects here. For other uses, see Dallas (disambiguation). The City of Dallas (pronounced [ˈdæl.əs] or [ˈdæl. , and has manufacturing, design or sales operations in more than 25 countries. Texas Instruments is traded on the New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City. under the symbol TXN. More information is located on the World Wide Web at www.ti.com http://www.ti.com. 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