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Symbian launches global Affiliate Partner Program bringing leading edge solutions to Symbian OS phone users
London, United Kingdom - 28 April 2003 - Symbian Ltd., developer of Symbian OS™,
the global, open, industry standard operating system for advanced mobile phones,
today announced the launch of the Symbian Affiliate Partner Program. The new
program is targeted at a wide range of third parties, particularly small and
medium-sized companies, working with Symbian OS. The program supports the many
services, application and content providers worldwide whose after-market products
enhance the value of Symbian OS phones to users. Affiliate Partners are therefore vital
to the growing success of Symbian and Symbian OS.
Symbian licenses Symbian OS to the world’s leading handset manufacturers including
Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, Siemens and Sony Ericsson.
"Symbian Affiliate Partners possess diverse skills and experience, and deliver a variety
of compelling after-market technologies, products and services to the growing
ecosystem built around Symbian OS," said David Wood, EVP of Partnering at
Symbian. “Together with Symbian Platinum Partners, who focus on bringing innovative
applications to our licensees which enable them to build winning phones, Affiliate
Partners are of huge importance to the creation of a mass market for advanced
Symbian OS phones.”
Leading application vendors and solution providers joining the program for launch
include Digital-Red, Epocware, Noumena Innovations, WildPalm and Xen Games. The
first Symbian Affiliate Partners are showcasing their products and services in the
Applications Pavilion and Games Arcade at Exposium03 on in London on 29th-30th
April 2003.
“With more than five years experience in the successful creation and distribution of
software for Symbian OS, Epocware is ideally positioned to be one of the launch
partners for the Symbian Affiliate Partner Program”, said Andrey Scherbakov,
Development Director at Epocware. “We look forward to working more closely with
Symbian to build on this success and to deliver new solutions for the growing range of
Symbian OS phones.”
“Xen Games specializes in producing high quality 3D games for mobile devices.
Symbian OS, with its rapidly increasing user-base, is an ideal platform for mobile
gaming", said Simon Jacobs, CEO of Xen Games. “As an Affiliate Partner we are keen
to work with Symbian to bring our compelling games to a wider audience.”
The Symbian Affiliate Partner Program benefits include the exclusive use of the
program logo, a dedicated on-line partner directory, access to key market channels
and invitations to participate in feedback sessions, development projects, testing, and
publishing programs – helping to shape the community of which they are an intrinsic
part.
For further details see: www.symbian.com/partners/affiliate.html
About the Symbian Partner Programs
The Affiliate Partner Program recognizes the many application, service and content
providers worldwide whose after-market contributions are vital to the continued
success of Symbian and Symbian OS phones.
The Platinum Partner Program is an invitation only program for companies with a
technology, service or strategic position that is key to the success of Symbian OS
phones in the market. For further details see:
www.symbian.com/partners/platinum.html
About Symbian
Symbian is a software licensing company which develops and licenses Symbian OS,
the global open industry standard operating system for advanced, data-enabled mobile
phones.
Symbian has licensed Symbian OS to the world's leading mobile phone manufacturers
including Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, Siemens and Sony Ericsson. Publicly
announced products based on Symbian OS include the BenQ P30, Samsung
SGH-D700, Siemens SX-1, NTT DoCoMo FOMA F2051 built by Fujitsu, Sony
Ericsson P800 Smartphone, Nokia 9200 Communicator range as well as the 7650,
3650 and N-Gage.
Symbian has its global headquarters in London, United Kingdom with development
sites in Europe and Asia. Symbian’s shareholders are Ericsson, Panasonic, Motorola,
Nokia, Psion, Samsung, Siemens and Sony Ericsson.
For further information about Symbian, please see www.symbian.com
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