The future shape of the market's leading mobile OS should be unveiled in weeks.
The partners are providng the Symbian Foundation - guardian of the open Symbian OS - with a reference platform based on ST Ericsson’s U8500 single chip.The first samples of the new platform will be available the end of this quarter.
Here's some tech stuff repeated verbatim: The U8500, which relies on the Nomadik application-processor technology, integrates the latest SMP (Symmetric Multi-Processing) ARM dual-Cortex A9 CPU in a platform supporting Symbian Foundation software. The chip is the first device enabling full High-Definition 1080 progressive-scan camcorder functions. Got that?
“I’m very pleased with ST-Ericsson’s execution on the U8500 platform and look forward to using the platform in our products and seeing it chosen by other Symbian Foundation partners,” said Peter Ropke, SVP of R&D at Nokia Devices.
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