Series 60 3rd Edition's new features focus on enhanced multimedia and enterprise func

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Series 60 3rd Edition's new features focus on enhanced multimedia and enterprise functionality


Latest edition of the Series 60 Platform takes smartphones to the mass market

Cannes, France - Nokia today introduced the new edition of the Series 60 Platform, the world's leading smartphone software. The Series 60 Platform 3rd Edition will enable Series 60 handset manufacturers to create smartphones for various user segments, device formats and better target high volume consumer markets. Furthermore, Series 60 3rd Edition with the latest version of Symbian OS forms an unparalleled combination, enabling licensees to design enterprise grade devices. The Series 60 3rd Edition, which runs on Symbian OS v9.0, will be available for licensees in mid-2005.

The Series 60 3rd Edition's new features focus on enhanced multimedia and enterprise functionality, sustainable application business support, state-of-the-art customization enablers and improved platform architecture. The Series 60 3rd Edition will also include the features and functions of the previous editions, including multiradio, extensive application suite, scalable UI and high-resolution support.

The global smartphone market is currently experiencing rapid growth. Nokia will have shipped approximately 20 million Series 60 based devices by the end of February and estimates the overall smartphone market in 2005 to exceed 50 million units. In 2008, Nokia expects the smartphone market to be around 25 percent of the total mobile device market.

"The Series 60 3rd Edition significantly enforces our strategy to support smartphone evolution towards different segments of the consumer mass market and enterprise. There will be a clear move towards multiple device segments where different user and market needs will drive the development. Enterprise and business or imaging, music, video and games focused smartphones require a robust, configurable software platform with a comprehensive number of new features," said Antti Vasara, Vice President, Mobile Software Sales and Marketing, Nokia.

The new security framework offers better protection for business critical data and provides a more secure and trusted application development and business environment. The Series 60 3rd Edition also includes significant improvements in many business critical platform features, such as calendar, synchronization and device management. These, together with the new security framework, enable licensees to build more versatile and robust enterprise grade mobile devices.

For extensive multimedia capabilities, the Series 60 3rd Edition will offer a new music player, more functionality for rich media content, USB mass memory storage and high-quality multimedia rendering. The new music player will offer seamless and easy-to-use music downloading with personalized themes and skins. The OMA Digital Rights Management (DRM) v2.0 brings enhanced usability to rich media content and simultaneously provides high-security content protection. Future smartphones based on the new edition can function as a normal USB memory stick. This way, music can be easily and quickly transferred from PC to mobile.

The new functionality on a platform architecture level includes increased support for different hardware configurations, including single and dual-chip hardware architectures and improved performance. The hardware flexibility will allow manufacturers to target devices for specific segments.

The new framework of Series 60 3rd Edition supports rich customization, enables improved support for extending Series 60 core applications with operator specific needs and yet ensures service and application compatibility between Series 60 based devices. The framework includes customization capabilities for building and integrating operator specific service applications, feature variation, service settings and user interface (UI) look and feel. This framework, combined with an increased compliancy with operators' requirements, enables more effective and scalable operator specific customization of Series 60 based devices. Consequently, operators will be able to deploy new services and create a stronger brand interface with customers.

The Series 60 3rd Edition will benefit application developers with a programming environment that enables developers to reach a whole new level of performance and an increased amount of segmentation potential with targeted features and applications for enterprise, gaming, music, video and other market sectors. New features for developers - such as location, Web Services and Session Initiated Protocol (SIP) support - will allow the developers to create more compelling applications with greater ease.

About Series 60
The Series 60 Platform, built on the Symbian OS, is the leading smart phone platform in the world. It is licensed by some of the foremost mobile phone manufacturers in the world including LG Electronics, Lenovo, Nokia, Panasonic, Samsung, Sendo and Siemens. The flexibility of the Series 60 Platform allows for various hardware designs and software configurations. This is demonstrated through the multitude of Series 60 based phones already available on the market. Through its award-winning user interface, extensive support for new mobile services and the innovation potential for partner solutions, the Series 60 Platform provides an open and scalable business opportunity for mobile operators and 3rd party developers.

www.series60.com provides up-to-date and unique information about the Series 60 Platform, devices and community, including the latest news. The site is now also available in XHTML format for convenient mobile access.

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Forum Nokia Supports Evolution of Mobile Applications with New Developer Platform for Series 60 3rd Edition


Displays 'CodeWarrior for Symbian OS', Spotlights world-class applications from Forum Nokia PRO developers and Announces Series 60 3rd Edition SDK

Cannes, France - Nokia (NYSE:NOK), the global leader in mobility, today announced a set of integrated development kits and tools from Forum Nokia, Nokia's global developer community, designed to complement the Series 60 Platform 3rd Edition, which was launched at the 3GSM World Congress 2005.

The SDK for Series 60 Platform 3rd Edition, available during 2nd quarter of 2005, will provide developers with phone emulator, documents and sample application code and will be part of a bundled offering that includes a free, 90 day trial version of Code Warrior for Symbian OS, Professional Edition v3.0, a new addition to the Symbian OS-based portfolio of development tools from Forum Nokia.

Series 60 Developer Platform 3rd Edition enables developers to create "smarter" applications for better user experience and more efficient development, and offers an enhanced security model that provides better protection for valuable applications and content. The new features of Series 60 Platform 3rd Edition will make it the platform for the mid-range, volume segment, resulting in greater opportunities for developers of Series 60-based applications and services.

The Series 60 Platform 3rd Edition, based on the state-of-the-art Symbian OS v9, introduces a hard real-time kernel which allows manufacturers to build Symbian OS devices based on a single core processor.

Forum Nokia's Developer Platform strategy unites groups of devices with common parameters and APIs, offering developers volume opportunities across a range of handsets with minimal customization. By the end of December 2004, Nokia had cumulatively shipped close to 180 million devices based on Series 40, Series 60 and Series 80 developer platforms worldwide.

"Series 60 Developer Platform 3rd Edition increases the opportunity available from the best-selling, open smartphone platform," said Lee Epting, Forum Nokia vice president. "It combines long-term stability with an exciting collection of new features bringing considerable benefits to the entire Series 60 community. Nokia remains committed to raising the bar, pushing technical limits and enabling developers to create new markets. Series 60 Platform 3rd Edition is a major milestone on this continuing journey."

At the global GSM industry summit in Cannes, Forum Nokia also is highlighting its developer tool supporting the latest Symbian(TM) OS. The new "CodeWarrior Development Studio for Symbian OS" Version 3.0, supporting C/C++ development for Symbian OS v9 supports every stage of Symbian OS software development, from device creation to commercial aftermarket software applications from 3rd party vendors.

In addition to the OEM and Professional versions of CodeWarrior for Symbian OS available for immediate download, Forum Nokia also announced CodeWarrior for Symbian OS - Personal Edition, Version 3.0, available during 2Q 2005. This Personal edition of CodeWarrior for Symbian OS is an affordable tool designed for developers of applications for phones based on Series 60 Platform and Symbian OS. It contains the same powerful suite of CodeWarrior application development tools used by many Symbian OS licensees, delivering to developers worldwide a comprehensive package of technology to build native C++ applications for Symbian OS phone.

World-class applications for Nokia's developer platforms also will be highlighted at 3GSM World Congress 2005. Members of Forum Nokia PRO, which provides specialized support for advanced mobile developer companies, will demonstrate a wide range of applications at the Forum Nokia PRO stand (Hall 4, K22). A special mobile internet site has been created, Forum Nokia PRO Mobile, which includes exclusive information about the Forum Nokia PRO developers that are at the Forum Nokia Stand. To visit Forum Nokia PRO Mobile, open the following address in your mobile phone's browser: www.nokia.com/forumnokiapro.

New and exciting third-party applications for Nokia Platforms that will be on display include:

- Photos to Friends, enabling private sharing, blogging and messaging of camera phone and digital camera photos, from www.futurice.com

- MobileKeeper, a client-server application that enables operators to guarantee safekeeping of increasing volumes of valuable information stored on subscribers' phones from www.mobicomp.com

- PanoMan, camera phone image "stitcher" that composes photos to an impressive panorama, resulting in an up to 360° view of a scene, from www.bit-side.com

- Mobile music maker, 4-track audio loop arranger that enables any user to create real ringtones in seconds, including their own vocals and sounds, from www.magix.net

- Visto Mobile, email solution delivering an immediate, background, true-push email, contacts and calendar service, ensuring continuous synchronization with a back-end server, from www.visto.com

- ESPN Bassmaster "Legendary Lunkers," realistic simulation game with call-back alert when fishes bite, from www.dwango.com

- Digitizer³ turns camera phone into a scanner, allowing document acquisition for high ARPU professionals, from www.realeyes3d.com

- Thierry Henry Pro European Football, action-packed simulation with teams from 16 European nations, ultra simple controls and an instant replay option, from www.mforma.com

- Super-Bomberman, a new version of popular mobile edition of the legendary "Bomberman" game, with advanced graphics, sounds and play mode, from www.livingmobile.com

About Forum Nokia
Nokia's global developer program, Forum Nokia connects developers to tools, technical information, support, and distribution channels they can use to build and market applications around the globe. From offices in the U.S., Europe, Japan, China, and Singapore, Forum Nokia provides technical and business development support to developers and operators to assist them in achieving their goal of successfully launching applications and services to consumers and enterprises. More information is available at www.forum.nokia.com.

About Nokia
Nokia is a world leader in mobile communications, driving the growth and sustainability of the broader mobility industry. Nokia connects people to each other and the information that matters to them with easy-to-use and innovative products like mobile phones, devices and solutions for imaging, games, media and businesses. Nokia provides equipment, solutions and services for network operators and corporations. www.nokia.com.