Symbian and Cingular Wireless Team up to Promote and Accelerate Application Development for Symbian OS Smartphones.Cingular Deluxe de·luxe also de luxe adj. Particularly elegant and luxurious; sumptuous: deluxe accommodations; a de luxe automobile. adv. Developers Receive Complimentary Symbian Affiliate Status While Cingular Wireless Becomes Symbian Platinum Partner REDWOOD redwood: see sequoia; brazilwood. redwood or sequoia Coniferous evergreen timber tree (Sequoia sempervirens) of the family Taxodiaceae, found in the fog belt of west-coastal North America. SHORES, Calif. -- Cingular Wireless and Symbian Ltd. today launched an early access support program to promote and accelerate application development for 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] smartphones version 9.x and above. Cingular Deluxe and Corporate Deluxe developers are offered complimentary Symbian Affiliate status, providing early and free access to Symbian reference materials. Cingular has also joined Symbian's Platinum Partner Program, enabling Cingular employees access to exclusive program benefits. A new Symbian Zone on Cingular devCentral provides Cingular Deluxe developers with early online access to the latest Symbian OS Library for Application Developers. This program is designed to give visibility of Symbian OS APIs and documentation before they are published in a smartphone A cellular telephone with information access. It provides digital voice service as well as any combination of e-mail, text messaging, pager, Web access, voice recognition, still and/or video camera, MP3, TV or video player and organizer (see PDA). SDK (Software Developer's Kit) See developer's toolkit and Windows SDK. SDK - Software Developers Kit (or "Software Development Kit"). , helping accelerate application development for the latest Symbian phones coming to market including those with Nokia's S60 software. Through the Cingular devCentral portal, developers will have full and unrestricted access to the latest Symbian developer library after completion of a simple click-through license agreement. Cingular Deluxe members taking advantage of this offer will have access to the Symbian OS Reference Guide -- a definitive source of information for all Symbian OS C++ APIs which includes: * a comprehensive introduction to the latest Symbian OS release * Symbian OS release notes * Symbian OS C++ API (Application Programming Interface) A language and message format used by an application program to communicate with the operating system or some other control program such as a database management system (DBMS) or communications protocol. Guide -- including overviews by subsystems of all key APIs "With over 80 million devices shipped on over 250 network operators, Symbian OS is the market leading 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 smartphones worldwide. We are collaborating with Cingular to offer deeper support to its developer community, ensuring accelerated time-to-market for applications targeting the latest Symbian OS smartphones at the earliest possible opportunity," said Jerry Panagrossi, vice president of US operations, Symbian. "As Symbian smartphones become more and more popular, we're ensuring that our customers have the best applications possible for these phones," said Carolyn Billings, director of business development, for Cingular Wireless. "Cingular's devCentral is the developer's portal to essential tools, knowledge, resources and business opportunities designed to help with productivity and profitability. By enabling our Deluxe developer partners to have access to the Symbian OS Library for Application Developers before it's publicly available in a smartphone SDK, we'll help to help significantly reduce the time it takes to bring an application to market for Symbian smartphones." In October, Cingular will showcase Symbian as its featured partner on the devCentral portal and will offer a free Webcast on October 19th on Symbian OS software development. For more information, Cingular Deluxe developers can visit the Symbian Zone of http://developer.cingular.com/developer/technologies after membership log-in to the website. About the Symbian Platinum Program The Symbian Platinum Program includes companies that have a technology or strategic position that is key to the success of mobile computing Using a computing device while in transit. Mobile computing implies wireless transmission, but wireless transmission does not necessarily imply mobile computing. Fixed wireless applications use satellites, radio systems and lasers to transmit between permanent objects such as buildings technology surrounding sur·round tr.v. sur·round·ed, sur·round·ing, sur·rounds 1. To extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle. 2. To enclose or confine on all sides so as to bar escape or outside communication. n. Symbian OS. As part of the program, Platinum Partners benefit from a range of commercial services, including technical support and joint marketing opportunities as well as privileged access to Symbian OS source code and a dedicated Partner Support team. For more information please see www.symbian.com/partners/platinum.html. About Symbian Symbian is a software licensing company that develops and licenses Symbian OS, the market leading open operating system for advanced, data-enabled mobile phones, also known as smartphones. Symbian licenses Symbian OS to the world's leading handset The part of the telephone that contains the speaker and the microphone. On a desktop phone, the part you hold in your hand is the handset. On a cellphone, the entire phone is the handset. See multihandset cordless and headset. manufacturers and has built close co-operative business relationships with leading companies across the mobile industry. During H1 2006, 24 million Symbian smartphones were sold worldwide to over 250 major network operators, bringing the total number of Symbian OS phones shipped to 82.8 million. Symbian is hosting The Symbian Smartphone Show, 17-18 October 2006, at ExCel, in London, UK. For more information or to register, visit http://www.symbiansmartphoneshow.com/2006/. Symbian has its headquarters in London, United Kingdom with offices in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , Europe (England and Sweden (UIQ Technology The Company UIQ Technology develops and licenses an open software platform to the world's leading mobile phone manufacturers and supports licensees in the drive towards developing a mass market for open mobile phones. AB)), Israel and Asia (India, P.R. China, Korea, and Japan). For more information, please visit www.symbian.com. |
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