Motorola slashes smartphone development time with advanced Symbian OS

Smartphone development puzzle solved with comprehensive, ready-to-customize solution

AUSTIN, Texas – April 24, 2003 – In the race to help manufacturers capture a larger share of the growing smartphone segment, the Semiconductor Products Sector at Motorola, Inc. (NYSE:MOT), the leader in wireless platform solutions, is launching its most comprehensive, ready-to-customize, smartphone solution at the Symbian Exposium03 in London next week.

Symbian OS™ has been seamlessly integrated into Motorola’s i.Smart reference design for consumer-driven GPRS products operating on the i.250 2.5G platform and its i.300 Innovative Convergence™ platform for 3G networks. Both reference designs include i.MX, Motorola’s industry-leading applications processor based on the ARM® core for smart handheld devices, and can be combined with Metrowerks development tools to further speed the integration process.

"Innovative new mobile devices are being enabled by platform solutions that include all of the hardware and software components to build a system, which have been pre-tested to work seamlessly together," said Allen Leibovitch, an IDC semiconductor analyst that specializes in cellular handsets and converged devices. "Motorola's i.Smart reference design is already one of the most comprehensive hardware solutions in the industry, and the integration of popular Symbian OS into that design provides OEMs a pre-verified development platform that can leverage the growing Symbian developer ecosystem."

Based on Motorola’s Innovative Convergence Platforms

Motorola’s comprehensive smartphone solutions for Symbian OS include the base Innovative Convergence platforms for 2.5G and 3G, which feature chipsets integrated with field-proven protocols and comprehensive software. Multi-media applications are driven from Motorola’s i.MX processor based on the ARM core, the latest addition to its family of applications processors, which represent the largest share of the handheld processor market.

In addition, Motorola has integrated fully validated and tested Symbian OS, interprocessor communication software, a choice of user interfaces and a robust application suite offering a complete hardware and software solution to allow minimal resource investment and fast time to market.

“Motorola’s Innovative Convergence family of platforms presents one of the most advanced wireless platform portfolios on the market today. Manufacturers licensing Symbian OS can design and build high-performance, cost-effective, advanced Symbian OS phones in a significantly reduced timeframe,” said David Wood, executive vice president, Partnering, Symbian.

Innovative Convergence platforms include optimized development environments for radio frequency and manufacturing that speed time-to-market, while ensuring full type approval. As a result, Innovative Convergence devices have been approved for use with virtually every major operator worldwide. To further help with smartphone development, the Metrowerks CodeWarrior™ Development Studio for Symbian OS allows customizable on-device application debugging of the i.Smart reference design. Software development kits for selected user interfaces are also included, speeding development time.

“In addition to all of the integrated hardware, software, tools and support services Motorola provides with its Innovative Convergence platform solutions, we offer the system know-how and wireless expertise that is unmatched anywhere in the industry,“ said Thierry Cammal, general manager of Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector, Wireless and Broadband Systems Group, European Operations. ”For those companies developing Symbian OS smart handheld devices, Motorola offers a clear, bi-directional migration path between 2G and 2.5G GSM/GPRS platforms as well as next-generation 3G.”

Motorola’s solutions based on the Symbian OS technology will be shown at the Symbian Exposium03, April 29-30, 2003, in London. Exposium03 provides an open environment in which technology suppliers, hardware vendors, network operators, enterprise solution providers and software developers can meet to do business and take advantage of the growing opportunities being created around Symbian OS for the entire mobile industry.

About Motorola's Innovative Convergence Solutions

Motorola offers a portfolio of Innovative Convergence platforms and products to help customers quickly address the converging mobile computing and wireless communications markets. The portfolio includes: 

• the i.200 voice-centric platform, the i.250 GPRS voice/data platform and i.300 UMTS wireless platforms;
• the i.MX family of applications processors to drive multimedia applications; 
• an industry-leading i.JV J2ME™ reference implementation that provides wireless device designers with the most up-to-date software for quick integration of Java™ applications; and 
• an i.IM image capture technology to enable imaging and real-time video, engineered to help deliver high-quality applications.

The Innovative Convergence platform is designed to expedite handset development and manufacturing process by organizing the tools and pieces of the solution into three major development environments. These environments include:

• Integrated Development Environment - features a comprehensive hardware and software environment, integrating the advanced GSM/GPRS chipset, handset reference design, GSM software engine with field-proven GPRS and user interface toolkit, and an application development system.
• Radio Test Environment - includes tools for configuring features, testing and fine-tuning radio performance. 
• Manufacturing Test Environment - offers software and manufacturing adaptation tools and services so a customer can decrease manufacturing set-up time by quickly ramping up a production line.

About Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector

As the world's #1 producer of embedded processors, Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector creates DigitalDNA(tm) system-on-chip solutions for a connected world. Our strong focus on wireless communications and networking enables customers to develop smarter, simpler, safer and synchronized products for the person, work team, home and automobile. Motorola's worldwide semiconductor sales were $5.0 billion (USD) in 2002.
For more information please visit  Motorola Semiconductors

About Motorola, Inc.

Motorola, Inc. (NYSE:MOT) is a global leader in providing integrated communications and embedded electronic solutions. Sales in 2002 were $27.3 billion. Motorola is a global corporate citizen dedicated to ethical business practices and pioneering important technologies that make things smarter and life better for people, honored traditions that began when the company was founded 75 years ago this year.
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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 the  Symbian  

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