Symbian Turns 9.0
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Feb 2, 2005, 12:20 PM by (staff)
Symbian Limited today announced Symbian OS™ version 9. The new version of the popular smartphone software adds many new features, while also enabling the OS to be used in cheaper, mass-market phones, in addition to the high-end smartphones targeted by earlier versions. Among the many new features are support for:
- Bluetooth stereo headsets
- USB mass storage
- Multi-mega-pixel cameras
- simultaneous multiple displays
- OMA-compliant Device Management for OTA updates
- enhanced IMAP and group scheduling support
Symbian 9 also includes improvements in areas such as audio, video, 3D, graphic acceleration, DRM, Java, security, and ARM processor support. Symbian is the core OS for the UIQ and Series 60 smartphone platforms. Phones based on Symbian OS v9 are expected to launch during the second half of 2005
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Phone?
Does anyone know of any phones that are scheduled to use the new Symbian OS v9? Especially Sony Ericsson?
Considering SE doesnt have any running a standard Symbian platform, I dont think they will have any running on this either. Look for Nokia's yet to be announced 6680 that is suppose to be an upgrade of the 6630 to have this as its got 2 cams on it. ...
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Does this mean synchronization that works?!
😲 PC Suite needs some serious improvement or maybe we'll get a 3rd Party App that works.
Support for higher resolutions for Series 60??
It doesn't mention this in the press release, but in previous press releases, they mentioned that future versions would support QVGA and 320x320. I really hope they don't overlook this.
Boring
this is great.. or something... ish.. 🙄
Now why is this boring? This is going to make an already great OS just that much better.