Company Overview:
Symbian is a software licensing company that develops and licenses Symbian OS, the market-leading open operating system for advanced, data-enabled mobile phones known as smartphones.

Symbian licenses Symbian OS to the world's leading handset manufacturers and has built close co-operative business relationships with leading companies across the mobile industry. During Q3 2007, 20.4 million Symbian smartphones were sold worldwide to over 250 major network operators, bringing the total number of Symbian smartphones shipped up to 30 September 2007 to 165 million.

Company's Primary Business Model:
Licensing software and technical services

Company Objective working with ARM:
Our objective from working closely with ARM is to deliver the advanced functionality our customers demand with the lowest possible power consumption by fully exploiting the capabilities of ARM processors.  Since Symbian and ARM are leaders in the hardware and software respectively for smartphones, it is natural that we collaborate closely. Symbian OS only runs on silicon containing ARM CPU Cores, thus 100% of the phones launched by Symbian's licensees include ARM technology.

Primary Solution:
Symbian creates and licenses Symbian OS, the market leading open operating system for mobile phones.

Target Markets:
Symbian licenses Symbian OS to mobile phone manufacturers. Customers include: Fujitsu, LG Electronics, Motorola, Mitsubishi Electric, Nokia, Samsung, Sharp and Sony Ericsson.

What is the company's offering?
Symbian OS: Symbian OS is the market leading open operating system for advanced data-enabled mobile phones licensed by the world’s leading mobile phone manufacturers. It is designed for the specific requirements of advanced 3G mobile phones and beyond.

Symbian OS combines the power of an integrated applications environment with mobile telephony, bringing advanced data services to the mass market. Symbian OS v9.5, the latest evolution of Symbian OS, delivers over 70 new features for high-performance, more powerful smartphones at mass market costs: a truly scalable operating system for the global market.

What’s inside Symbian OS?
Location Based Services (LBS): Location Based Services are often equated with the phrase 'the new camera' referring to the fact that, in the same way most mobile phones now feature cameras, most mobile phones will soon support GPS. This will allow the user to take advantage of a number of different location based positioning services.

Freeway: FreeWay is the new and unrivalled IP networking architecture in Symbian OS, providing broadband speeds in your pocket. On mobile broadband networks, FreeWay delivers the capability for super fast download speeds, high quality audio/video streaming and crystal-clear VoIP calls.

ScreenPlay: ScreenPlay is the new graphics architecture in Symbian OS. Designed to power the richest visual experience available on a mobile phone to date, it gives users big screen effects in their pockets while ensuring long battery life.

Symmetric multiprocessing (SMP): Today’s phones are becoming increasingly complex; running process heavy applications such as GPS and digital TV, which require more efficient processing to achieve optimum performance without compromising battery life.

Demand Paging: Symbian delivers Demand Paging support in Symbian OS versions 9.3, 9.4 and 9.5. Demand Paging enables more efficient usage of RAM by loading read-only code and data only when required (on demand).
To find out more: http://www.symbian.com/symbianos/index.html

Symbian’s Ecosystem
Symbian’s strength lies over and above that of our market-leading product – Symbian OS. We support a vibrant and dynamic Ecosystem that creates value for the thriving open OS market. Our Ecosystem comprises some of the most innovative companies worldwide. Together we collaborate to develop powerful technology and best-in-class solutions on Symbian OS. By selecting quality solutions from Symbian’s Ecosystem, our customers can differentiate their products while reducing development and integration efforts.

The first step to become part of our Ecosystem is the Symbian Partner Network (SPN) – a world-class partner program, where companies can access a variety of tools and resources to develop compelling solutions, quickly and efficiently.

Members of the Symbian Partner Network have access to exclusive technical, marketing and business development benefits and opportunities, as well as access to SDN++, Symbian’s restricted access website for ‘device creation’ developers, which provides a range of tools and resources, to develop on Symbian OS, quickly and efficiently.

SPN is the first port of call for a commercial engagement with Symbian. Once members of the Symbian Partner Network, companies can then access other technology, service and development programs to complement their Symbian OS strategies.

Symbian Ready is a technology validation program aimed at driving improvements in the quality of partner software solutions, through self validation (AUTO) or through testing by Symbian (VERO).

Symbian Competence Centers are select professional services companies and members of SPN that have the specialist skills and expertise to assist developers in the creation and integration of solutions based on Symbian OS.

Symbian Training Partners is a program for companies that collaborate with Symbian to meet the need for Symbian OS training worldwide. For more information: http://www.symbian.com/partner/spn.html.

Symbian also offers programs for developers, such as the Symbian Developer Network. As a developer targeting Symbian OS phones, Symbian Developer Network is the primary resource to get access to the technical and commercial information and resources needed to succeed in the wireless space. Symbian Developer Network can help developers in the following ways by:
• providing technical information and news
• giving you access to tools
• hosting discussion and feedback forums
• representing developer views inside Symbian
For more information: http://developer.symbian.com

What is unique about the solutions from Symbian?
Symbian is a software licensing company that develops and licenses Symbian OS, the market-leading open operating system for mobile phones. Symbian OS is scalable, future-proof, open and secure and therefore continues to be the most widely-used open operating system in mobile phones.

On 24 June 2008, Nokia announced plans to acquire the remaining shares in Symbian Limited that Nokia does not already own and then contribute the Symbian and S60 software to the Symbian Foundation.

Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola and NTT DOCOMO announced their intent to unite Symbian OS, S60, UIQ and MOAP(S) to create one open mobile software platform. Together with AT&T, LG Electronics, Samsung Electronics, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and Vodafone they plan to establish the Symbian Foundation to extend the appeal of this unified software platform. Membership of this non-profit Foundation will be open to all organizations.

What is your company history with ARM?
Symbian's origins are from Psion Software.  ARM and Symbian have been working together since 1994 - prior to Symbian's formation in 1998. In the early days, the ARM design team worked on system on chip (SoC) system architecture used in Symbian OS based PDA's produced by Psion Plc, which gave ARM an extensive array of expertise in working with Symbian OS.

ARM also works closely with Symbian engineers in developing new tool chains as well as ensuring that Symbian OS takes full advantage of the ARM architecture and the many benefits derived from ARM's Intellectual Property (IP) which include:
• Minimized risk implementation through access to key ARM processor expertise
• Accelerated time-to-market
• A robust software structure designed to flexibly adapt to future requirements
• Enabling ultra low-power consumption and high performance.

Why have you chosen to work with ARM? What are primary benefits you have received from working with ARM?
Symbian OS was designed from the ground up to work in mobile phones. By working closely together Symbian can design Symbian OS to fully utilize the capabilities of ARM processors, and ensure that future ARM technologies are designed to work well with Symbian OS.

Symbian and ARM work together to enhance and optimize Symbian OS to run on the current and future generation SoCs containing ARM CPU Cores. By closely working together we can speed up innovation and bring new capabilities to the market faster.

The benefits for Symbian are clearly recognised through:-
• 206m cumulative Symbian OS shipments across 235 different phone models since the formation of Symbian
• 18.5m Symbian mobile phones shipped to consumers worldwide – a 16.5% increase on Q107 (15.9m)

What ARM technologies does Symbian support?
Symbian and ARM work together on ensuring that Symbian OS fully exploits the features and capabilities of ARM processors, and vice-versa.  Symbian OS works with a variety of ARM processors including ARM 9, 11 and Cortex A8 models.  Symbian and ARM are collaborating closely to bring new technologies such as SMP to market.

Specialist area as an ARM Partner?
Symbian is a key operating system partner for ARM.

How does Symbian work with ARM as a licensee?
Symbian licenses ARM Realview Compiler Technology (RVCT), which is used by all developers at Symbian. RealView Compilation Tools are developed to deliver the tightest code density to significantly reduce image size. For the first time two compiler versions will be supported under Symbian OS v9.5 - RVCT v2.2 and v3.1.

End products that Symbian/ARM technology ships with?
Symbian develops the market leading, open mobile operating system that only supports ARM processors
• 226 million cumulative Symbian OS units shipped across approximately 250 different phone models since the formation of Symbian
• 19.6 million Symbian mobile phones shipped to consumers worldwide in Q2, an increase of 5% on Q2 2007
All of which use one or more ARM processors.

What are Symbian’s and ARM’s key areas of collaboration?
Symmetric Multiprocessing & Tools.

SMP:http://developer.symbian.com/main/community/newsletter/archive/news_press_release_oct07.jsp

Tools:
To find out more, visit Symbian’s booth at ARM DevCon.
Also attend the following sessions at the show:
Session in main Theatre: 07/10/2008 – 14:00-14:20
Symbian ½ Seminar Track: 08/10/2008 – 09:00-11:45

• Developing for Symbian OS
• Exploiting Symbian OS: Features and languages you can use today
• Symmetric Multiprocessing with Symbian OS
Symbian OS is getting ready to drive the next generation of smart phones, powered by the multiprocessor Cortex A9. This talk will cover the changes made to Symbian OS to support SMP, the coding and runtime impacts of SMP on existing code, to help developers prepare for the onset of concurrency.

Additional information:
Fast Facts:
http://www.symbian.com/about/fastfacts/fastfacts.html
Latest press releases: http://www.symbian.com/news/pr/2008/pressreleases2008.html

Symbian OS
Whitepapers:
http://www.symbian.com/symbianos/whitepapers.html

Symbian Developer Network
For white papers, reference material, forums, wiki and information on all the support that Symbian provides to developers.
http://developer.symbian.com

Symbian Foundation:
Website: http://www.symbianfoundation.org/

Press releases:
http://www.symbian.com/news/pr/2008/pr200810018.html
http://www.symbian.com/news/pr/2008/pr200810017.html

Whitepaper:
http://www.symbianfoundation.org/files/WhitePaper.pdf

Presentation slides: http://www.symbianfoundation.org/files/AnnouncementPresentation.pdf

For more on the ARM Connected Community and Symbian go to: http://www.arm.com/community/