Symbian Exposium 03 - A recap of this week's Symbian News

WDN's SymbianDevZone contributing Editor, Richard Bloor is in attendance at Exposium03 and will share some of his thoughts and findings when he returns next week.

This week in London, the Symbian OS user community gathered at the annual Symbian exposium. A number of companies used the event as a platform to make some major announcements. Read on for details of news out of the UK at Exposium 03.

In addition to a news summary, we are pleased to publish a related feature this week in our Symbian DevZone. A Look at the The Metrowerks CodeWarrior Series 60 Developer Kit - Metrowerks’ CodeWarrior Wireless Development Kit for Symbian OS, Nokia 3650 Edition is the second kit Metrowerks have released for Symbian OS development, the first being for the Sony Ericsson P800. This week we take a look at the kit and find out whether it really does have everything you need to start Symbian OS development.

Symbian OS in the News

Symbian launches Symbian OS v7.0s at Exposium03
Symbian OS enhanced with new networking capabilities, Java MIDP 2.0, multimedia framework & new language variants

My Avantgo Now Available For Series 60 Devices - Nokia 3650 and 7650 imaging phone users can now use the popular My AvantGo® service to access over 2,500 channels of news, sports, weather, entertainment, travel info and more

Handango Joins Symbian Platinum Partner Program
As a Platinum Partner, Handango will continue to support Symbian's ecosystem of developers, partners and licensees with its market-leading application management and provisioning platform, Handango AMPP.

Nokia and Borland Announce Availability of Borland C++ Mobile Edition for Series 60, Nokia Edition - Designed to increase the productivity of development teams and accelerate the delivery of high-quality Series 60 platform applications, the complete Borland C++ Mobile Edition for Series 60, Nokia Edition is available without charge at www.forum.nokia.com/tools




A complete tool kit for quality assurance and testing on Symbian OS
Digia®QualityKit, a complete set of tools for implementation, verification, testing and maintenance phases of the Symbian OS software development

ART’s revolutionary phonem-based smARTspeak XG now available for Nokia’s Series 60 Platform
smARTspeak XG voice interface solution incorporates; speaker independent name dialing, continuous digit dialing, command & control and complementary speaker dependent name dialing for nicknames and abbreviations. smARTspeak XG, being a truly speaker independent solution, eliminates the user lengthy learning curve by harnessing innovative technologies in a seamless tech-less manner.

Symbian launches global Affiliate Partner Program bringing leading edge solutions to Symbian OS phone users
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.

TapRoot Systems and EMCC Software announce collaboration on Series 60 Platform based devices
The combination of the two teams creates one of the largest independent sources of Symbian OS development and porting knowledge outside of Symbian itself. The collaboration between the two companies brings together over 60 dedicated professionals with experience of the latest developments in the smart phone industry.

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