The Symbian Smartphone Show Day 1 News

The Smartphone Show, London, UK - October 16, 2007 - The Smartphone Show 2007 kicked off today in London, UK demonstrating the growth and reach of smartphones around the world as well as new technologies to shape the future of mobile. An exhibition featuring seven cities - Tokyo, Rio de Janeiro, New York, London, Beijing, Bangalore, and Nairobi - showcased the range of innovative Symbian applications in use today including mobile commerce, games, socio-economic development, enterprise, music and social media.

In his event keynote presentation, Symbian CEO Nigel Clifford, announced the following Symbian news and Symbian ecosystem announcements.

Symbian brings big screen effects and broadband to consumers' pockets with ScreenPlay and FreeWay.

ScreenPlay and FreeWay are ground-breaking technologies from Symbian designed to power the future of mobile computing. Offering dramatic enhancements in the vital areas of graphics and connectivity, they will be essential in driving the growth and reach of smartphones.

Symbian drives developer innovation with improved Symbian Signed processes and new books

Developing for Symbian OS™ has been made easier and more cheaper for developers worldwide with a new set of Symbian Signed criteria and procedures for testing and signing applications. In addition, two new technical guides were launched, Mobile Python, written by Jürgen Scheible and Developing Software for Symbian OS, Second Edition, written by Steve Babin.

Samsung strengthens open OS strategy and launches new Symbian smartphones

Symbian welcomed Samsung Electronics' commitment to Symbian OS as part of its open OS strategy by announcing and showcasing the latest Samsung smartphones based on Symbian OS: the Samsung i450, i550 and i560.

Symbian smartphone users gain enhanced mapping and location based services with Google Maps for mobile in Symbian C++

Google has made available a free, native Symbian C++ version of Google Maps™ for mobile that was developed by Google for Symbian smartphones. The client is available for download for S60 3rd Edition on Symbian OS-based phones at www.google.com/gmm.

Social.FM launches social music service for Symbian smartphones

This native Symbian C++ version of Social.FM will support Symbian smartphones based on UIQ and S60, enabling users to enjoy a faster and more responsive mobile music experience. More

Cortado offers free push mail and extended business services for Symbian smartphones

Cortado, a division of Symbian Platinum Partner ThinPrint, offers free push-mail and extended business services for Symbian smartphones. More

Advanced calendar application for Symbian smartphones released

Handy Calendar is a new application for efficient time management released by Epocware/ Paragon Software Group. More

Handmark answers call for Pocket Express™ on Symbian smartphones

Handmark announces a new version of the award-winning Pocket Express mobile service. More

CoPilot® Live™ 7 navigation launched for Symbian smartphones

Dedicated navigation system made simple with real-time mobile Internet services. More

Documents to go by DataViz to provide Office 2007 file editing for Symbian smartphones based on UIQ

Solution will be first to view, edit and create Word, Excel & PowerPoint 2007 files on UIQ 3 and Symbian OS. More

Symbian Application Trail

For a snap shot of some of the new and favourite Symbian applications being demonstrated at the show, visit: More

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Media Enquiries

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