Symbian Welcomes New Nokia Smartphones To Symbian^3 Family

Three new smartphones join the Nokia N8 in featuring the fully open source platform.

San Francisco and London: The Symbian Foundation welcomed Nokia’s unveiling of three new smartphones to be powered by the latest version of the Symbian platform, the world’s most popular smartphone operating system. Along with the previously announced Nokia N8, these four touch screen devices will be the first to implement the fully open source Symbian^3 platform, which incorporates over 250 feature updates and platform improvements that, combined, offer an all-new, intuitive and exciting user experience.

The latest smartphones announced by Nokia and powered by Symbian^3 include the Nokia N8, Nokia E7, Nokia C7 and Nokia C6-01. Benefitting from an extensive set of advanced features, varying sizes and form factors as well as a range of price points, this new family of devices provides smartphones to suit everyone’s needs. Whether the device boasts a 12 MP camera or 4-inch display with a QWERTY slide-out keyboard, all four leverage the Symbian^3 platform to allow users to connect with their devices like never before. Some of the highlights of the platform that consumers can expect to experience on one or more of the smartphones are:
# HDMI support - Connect your Symbian^3 smartphone to your HD television to share HD videos or high resolution photos with friends as well as stream live TV, films and music over the Internet. Featured on the Nokia N8 and Nokia E7.
# Multiple personalized home screens - Create different home screens to fit each aspect of your life and place applications, multiple instances of widgets and shortcuts, not to mention all your different email accounts and social media channels, where you want them.
# Multipoint touch - Now you can swipe to scroll, pinch-to-zoom and tap once to open.
# Real multitasking - Improved memory management means you can now run even more applications at once, using a visual task manager to switch seamlessly between them with a swipe and a tap.
# Turbo charged graphics - The new, advanced 2D and 3D graphics architecture delivers a fast and responsive user interface, maximizing the visual enhancements and smooth transitions in Symbian^3. Personalize your phone to make it look the way you want.

Daniel Rubio, Leadership Team member for Technology and Delivery Management at Symbian, said: "We are thrilled that Nokia, the world’s leading smartphone manufacturer, continues to recognize the power of the Symbian platform and has chosen it to run on four of the company’s hottest new smartphones. It is very rewarding to see the Symbian^3 platform brought to life so faithfully on these devices, providing compelling experiences at a range of price points that will make them accessible and appealing to users around the world."

To learn more about the Symbian^3 platform, please visit www.symbian.org/symbian-platform. To learn more about Nokia’s new smartphones, please visit www.nokia.com/press/press-releases/showpressrelease?newsid=1444285.