TAT targets Symbian OS smartphone market

TAT Joins Symbian Platinum Program

Malmö, Sweden – 26th August 2005 – ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­ ­­­­TAT today announced that it has joined the Symbian Platinum Program to support the growing market for smartphones based on Symbian OS™. As a Platinum Partner, TAT is extending Kastor and their user interface competence to the Symbian OS ecosystem.  Symbian develops and licenses Symbian OS, the operating system that powers today’s most popular smartphones.  Symbian OS is licensed by the world’s leading mobile phone manufacturers who have shipped more than 39 million Symbian OS-based phones to date.

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"We are pleased to be recognized as part of Symbian’s vision. Through our partnership, we see that Symbian can offer even more user friendly and appealing user interfaces, which in turn will stimulate Symbian OS licences sales statistics”, said Ludvig Linge, CEO. "And for TAT, by becoming a Symbian Platinum Partner, we see that we can further strengthen our relationships with users, terminal manufacturers and operators.”

TAT works on all levels of the user interface: integrating the Kastor technology, and also providing graphical design and the usability competence. In relation to traditional techniques, Kastor also enables substantial memory and performance savings, which in turn lowers bill of materials for the phone manufactures. 

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“The user experience is extremely important for phone users,” said Alan Roderick, head of partnering, Symbian.  “We are pleased to have TAT join the Symbian Platinum Program and bring their user interface technology and experience to the Symbian ecosystem.”

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 technology surrounding 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.

Symbian Platinum Program

About TAT

TAT is a Swedish software technology and design company offering products and services to differentiate and enhance the user experience of mobile devices. The business focus is on graphical user interfaces and through a combination of genuine technical and aesthetical competence TAT traditionally enables clients to push the visual limits of mass market phones as well as feature phones. The company was founded in 2002 and is self funded.

About Kastor

Kastor is a TAT’s user interface technology targeting portable devices and is created to build more advanced user interfaces with a shorter development time. The technology has been recognized by many of the leading mobile players as one of the best user interface foundations currently available for the mobile market. Kastor has been shipped in over 40 million handsets worldwide as of July 2005.

About Symbian Ltd

Symbian is a software licensing company that develops and licenses Symbian OS™, the global open industry standard operating system for advanced, data-enabled mobile phones.

Symbian licenses Symbian OS to the world’s leading handset manufacturers and has built close co-operative business relationships with leading companies across the mobile industry.  In the first half of 2005, 14.5m Symbian OS-based mobile phones were sold worldwide to over 200 network operators, taking the installed base of Symbian OS phones to more than 39 million. 

Symbian has its headquarters in London, United Kingdom with offices in the United States, Europe, Israel and Asia (Bangalore, Beijing, Seoul and Tokyo).

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