Symbian welcomes Nokia and T-Mobile collaboration to bring the benefits of S60 on Symbian OS to mainstream consumer markets

8 February, 2007 – Symbian today welcomed the announcement by Nokia that Nokia will collaborate with T-Mobile to bring core services to market and improve the capability of S60 licensees to develop devices for T-Mobile. The collaboration is part of T-Mobile’s efforts to harmonize terminal software solutions within T-Mobile’s device portfolio.

Through the collaboration, T-Mobile will have access to timely and customized S60 products that support the consumer adoption of their services, such as web’n’walk™, a service that allows easy access to the Internet on mobile devices.

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“T-Mobile recognizes the benefits of software platforms and sees open operating systems such as S60 on Symbian OS crucial for our platform strategy. We are pleased with the customization package that S60 offers to address T-Mobile’s specific requirements. The timely and cost effective customization is key to guaranteeing device time to market,” said Przemek Czarnecki, Executive Vice President, Terminal Technology at T-Mobile.

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