The Symbian Smartphone Show Day 1 News

17 October 2006 - The Symbian Smartphone Show kicked off today in London, UK with more than 120 exhibitors showcasing the latest mobile technologies. Symbian announced the following news today, including two new handsets from two of the world’s leading mobile phone manufacturers:

Samsung unveils HSDPA Symbian smartphone

The SGH-i520 is the latest Symbian smartphone manufactured by Samsung. The new HSDPA smartphone is based on Symbian OS v9 and S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 1. The slim slider phone has an HSDPA radio and browser enabling Internet access and content download speeds up to five times faster than other smartphones. It has an attractive design and comes with a convenient and sophisticated touch pad providing short-cuts to key phone functions.http://www.symbian.com/news/pr/2006/pr20068544.html

LG Electronics introduces HSDPA Symbian smartphone

Symbian today welcomed the introduction of JoY, an HSDPA Symbian smartphone by Symbian OS™ licensee LG Electronics. JoY is an attractive slider smartphone based on Symbian OS v9 and S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1. With a 2,4" LCD screen, HSDPA radio and full xHTML browser, JoY makes it fast and easy for fun seekers to browse the Internet and download content and applications. http://www.symbian.com/news/pr/2006/pr20068546.html

Sling Media and Symbian partner to bring personal TV home viewing to consumers

Sling Media, Inc., and Symbian today announced that the two companies are partnering to bring consumers a powerful mobile TV experience to Symbian smartphones. Sling Media will deliver a version of its popular SlingPlayer Mobile software application, currently available only in the U.S. and Canada, for Symbian OS in select European and Asian countries during Q4 and will extend availability to the U.S. shortly thereafter. Unlike other offerings available on the market today, SlingPlayer Mobile delivers customers’ complete home TV experience on mobile handsets using standard network connections, including 3G cellular and WiFi. http://www.symbian.com/news/pr/2006/pr20068543.html

Symbian and Cingular Wireless team up to promote and accelerate application development for Symbian smartphones

Cingular Wireless and Symbian launched an early access support program to promote and accelerate application development for phones based on Symbian OS v9. 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 the Symbian Platinum Partner Program, enabling Cingular employees access to exclusive program benefits. http://www.symbian.com/news/pr/2006/pr20068536.html

News from the Symbian ecosystem from day 1 of the Symbian Smartphone Show:

DataViz offers Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Compatibility for S60 on Symbian OS

RoadSync 3.0, Dataviz’s Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync is now in beta for phones based on S60 and Symbian OS. With support for new Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 mobile productivity enhancements like e-mail flags, online mailbox search, support for linked SharePoint files and faster message retrieval, the RoadSync beta is one of the first and only ways to experience the exciting new features of Exchange 2007 on devices currently in the market today. http://www.dataviz.co.uk/news/press/pressreleases/Detail.html?id=163·uct=

Visto first to receive Symbian Approved mark for push email

Visto has successfully completed the Symbian Email Validation Program and is the first company to be accredited the "Symbian Approved" mark for push email. The Symbian Email Validation Program defines industry agreed quality guidelines for push email solutions in the form of a Symbian Recommended Practice against which vendors can validate their solutions. The guidelines cover the whole user experience from installation and device compatibility to minimum service functionality and ease-of-use. http://www.visto.com

Scalado provides mobile imaging software solution for Symbian OS

Scalado AB, a leading developer of digital imaging software, today announced that Scalado is providing Scalado CAPS™ as an extended imaging solution in Symbian smartphones with camera. CAPS enables highly efficient capture, editing, browsing, and manipulation of high-resolution megapixel images efficiently on any mobile camera-phone, thus giving Symbian smartphones with cameras the speed, performance and functionality that end-users would expect from a high-end, megapixel camera. As part of the collaboration, Symbian will develop and add an extended C++ API on top of Scalado CAPS in order for Symbian OS licensees to easily add their own camera, album and photo editing-applications. CAPS will be available in the Software Development Kit (SDK) for testing purposes and can be licensed directly from Scalado for its use in products. http://www.scalado.com/m4n/?oid=559&_locale=1

Sony Ericsson P990 goes LocationFree: use it to watch your favourite home TV shows from absolutely anywhere

Owners of the Sony Ericsson P990 smartphone can now enjoy their favourite local TV shows from wherever they are in the world. LocationFree from Sony redirects your TV shows from your home television to target devices such as your P990, so you can keep up with your favourite programmes. You can watch live TV, playback recorded programmes and even set up future recordings, all on your P990. http://www.sonyericsson.com/spg.jsp

ALK announces CoPilot Live navigation for Symbian smartphones with UIQ software

ALK Technologies today announced that their award-winning satellite navigation system, CoPilot Live, is now available for the latest Symbian smartphones with UIQ software from Sony Ericsson. Initially compatible with the Sony Ericsson M600i and P990, the latest version of CoPilot Live provides fully featured navigation that offers the same experience as a dedicated system or Personal Navigation Device (PND) but with the convenience and portability of a mobile phone. http://www.alk.com

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