Nokia Launches Software Devt Products With Symbian

STOCKHOLM -(Dow Jones)- Finland's Nokia Oyj (NOK) Tuesday said it has launched two new software development products together with Symbian Plc (SYN.YY) in the U.K.

The first product is an early access support program to assist companies developing applications for the growing global market for Symbian OS-based smartphones.

The Forum Nokia PRO Symbian Zone, created and managed in cooperation with Symbian, will enable advanced developer companies to have fast access to smartphone technology reference material, helping to create applications for devices.

Forum Nokia PRO Symbian Zone members will benefit from reduced development time and costs as a result of close cooperation with Nokia and Symbian. One of the primary advantages of membership is exclusive, early access to regular updates of the latest Symbian OS Library for Application Developers, a newly developed resource containing the most up-to-date Symbian OS API documentation.

Access to the Forum Nokia PRO Symbian Zone is free to Forum Nokia PRO member companies who sign a Symbian Affiliate Program license agreement through the Forum Nokia PRO site with Symbian.

The other product is a Symbian OS development tool, Carbide.c++.

The Carbide.c++ unifies Nokia's developer tools offering, providing a tiered family of products which offer flexibility to developers at all levels and in all segments of the Symbian environment.

The product includes Carbide.c++ Professional Edition, designed for professional Symbian OS developers who focus on Symbian device development and high performance applications and require early access to next-generation Symbian OS support and technical specifications; Carbide.c++ Developer Edition, offering a new graphical Rapid Application Development tool to ease C++ development for both Series 60 and UIQ mobile platforms, meeting the requirements of advanced-level application developers by providing improved productivity tools for application development and debug on Symbian OS devices; and Carbide.c++ Express, an entry-level tool available for download at no cost and designed to invite all programmers to explore Symbian OS, providing a complete set of application development tools needed to target the Series 60 and UIQ SDKs and to build and deploy applications to devices.

Carbide.c++ Express is designed to attract new developers to the Symbian OS community via the popular Eclipse IDE bundled with no-cost C++ Symbian OS development tools, lowering many barriers for large numbers of novice developers, students, academics, and evaluators to begin developing on Symbian OS.

The entry-level Carbide.c++ Express tool will be available for free download in the first quarter of 2006 at Forum Nokia, UIQ, Symbian and Symbian licensee websites.

Carbide.c++ Developer Edition will be available in the second quarter of 2006 from Forum Nokia's webstore for EUR299.

Schedules for Carbide.c++ Professional Edition and other Carbide products will be announced separately with shipments expected to commence through the second half of 2006.

Symbian OS is a smartphone operating system.

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Posted to the site on 11th October 2005