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Symbian Rolls Quartz Wireless Platform
(02/23/00, 6:09 p.m. ET) By Peter Clarke, EE Times
HANNOVER, Germany -- A week after announcing its reference design software strategy, Symbian has unveiled Quartz, the first of its three software platforms for wireless information devices.
Quartz is Symbian's code name for a reference design of a pen-based communicator it will license. The software stack reference design includes everything from applications down to the company's Epoc operating system. Symbian's other platforms, code-named Pearl and Crystal, define a smartphone platform and a full-featured keyboard-based system respectively.
At CeBit here, Symbian revealed that Quartz mandates a quarter-VGA format, and includes applications for jotting notes, storing contacts, a personal information manager, e-mail, fax, telephony, and Web and WAP (wireless application protocol) browsing. It also integrates the Bluetooth wireless data interface. The Epoc rev 6 operating system adds integrated Java and IMAP support within a footprint of less than 16 Mbytes.
David Levin, chief executive of Psion, in attendance at the Symbian press conference, said that Motorola would roll out a Quartz-based device in the first half of 2001. Psion and Motorola are working together on the design. Those two companies, along with Nokia, Ericsson, and Matsushita, are joint owners of the Symbian venture.
Ericsson executives in attendance also committed their company to the Symbian platform, but declined to specify the date of a roll out.
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