RE: Symbian's EPOC platform - Device types - V6.0 Shipping
Good reference here differentiating the 2 Symbian device families (Communicators and Smartphones), and (showing) 3 reference designs (Crystal Quartz, and Pearl).
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Summary Stuff:
* Communicators are Information centric products with voice capability. Symbian has two reference design called ("Quartz" and "Crystal")
Application engines shared by Quartz and Crystal include contacts, schedule, to-do list, sketch, word processor, messaging, WAP and web browsing, and voice recorder, as well as viewers for external data formats including Microsoft Word e-mail attachments.
* Smartphones are Voice centric devices with information capability. Symbian has one reference design called "Pearl".
V6.0 now shipping:
>> V6.0 SHIPS - MAKING IT HAPPEN
Sep 25, 2000
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With some 20 different Smartphones and Communicators already in development by our licensees, we are anticipating that a wide range of Symbian-based phones will come to market during 2001.
Motorola, along with Ericsson, Nokia, Panasonic, Psion and Sanyo are all developing Symbian phone-pad and keyboard-based Communicators while Ericsson, Nokia, Panasonic and Sony are all developing Symbian Smartphones.
An overview of v6.0
The 32-bit architecture of the Symbian platform has been specifically designed to support the demanding utility and performance required of the emerging wireless information device category.
Version 6.0 of Symbian's software platform, designed for phone-pad and keyboard-based Communicators, was shipped to licensees last week. Fully integrating data and voice in wireless products, Symbian platform v6.0 includes WAP 1.1, HTML, Bluetooth, and wireless Java. Symbian will add support for packet data on GSM networks (GPRS), enhanced Bluetooth and WAP 1.2 functionality in Symbian platform v6.1, scheduled for release to licensees by the end of this year.
With these technologies, and the robust Symbian operating system that has been designed for the first generation of integrated data and voice products, Symbian is enabling its licensees to rapidly bring to market a wide range of Smartphones, phone-pad and keyboard-based Communicators.
Symbian's reference designs are just a part of the innovative and rich wireless economy.
Device manufacturers use Symbian's OCKs to customize a reference design for their hardware and low-level wireless communication stacks. Customization includes low-level kernel and device driver customization, telephony adaptation, and optional GUI appearance and branding. Device manufacturers may include additional hardware and APIs to augment Symbian's reference designs.
Network operators, device manufacturers and independent software vendors may work together to provide bespoke applications or services for a WID product.
Software developers in enterprises, consultancies or software houses use Symbian's SDKs to develop applications, which can be written in C++ or Java, to be installed onto Smartphones or Communicators. Symbian's leading JavaPhone implementation provides convenient APIs for advanced wireless communication.
Symbian Competence Centers (SCCs) work closely with developers, partners and licensees of the Symbian platform worldwide, to promote the development of a variety of Symbian-based devices. The SCCs share their extensive knowledge and expertise with the Symbian platform, and act as extensions of Symbian's organization in the wireless community. <<
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