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New features and bug fixes
Symbian this week announced a new version of its highly popular mobile OS to a new version 9.3. Widely used on cell phones, Symbian said that its new OS 9.3 builds upon many of the features that have made the version 9 family a big success. According to the press release:
Symbian OS v9.3 builds on the success of the v9 family as a robust, secure, open and standards-based OS for smartphones. It includes incremental enhancements in line with market requirements related to phone performance and reducing time-to-market for handset vendors and network operators’ cost-effective deployment of revenue-generating services, content and applications.
Symbian said that its new OS 9.3 offers full compatibility with the entire v9 family all while offering new features and better optimizations. Symbian said that phones using the new OS 9.3 also offer shorter start-up times and applications as well as improved memory management. Many current Symbian phones such as Nokia's new N80, have very slow startup times and users routinely report out of memory errors.
Some new features for Symbian OS 9.3 include:
New features and bug fixes
Symbian this week announced a new version of its highly popular mobile OS to a new version 9.3. Widely used on cell phones, Symbian said that its new OS 9.3 builds upon many of the features that have made the version 9 family a big success. According to the press release:
Symbian OS v9.3 builds on the success of the v9 family as a robust, secure, open and standards-based OS for smartphones. It includes incremental enhancements in line with market requirements related to phone performance and reducing time-to-market for handset vendors and network operators’ cost-effective deployment of revenue-generating services, content and applications.
Symbian said that its new OS 9.3 offers full compatibility with the entire v9 family all while offering new features and better optimizations. Symbian said that phones using the new OS 9.3 also offer shorter start-up times and applications as well as improved memory management. Many current Symbian phones such as Nokia's new N80, have very slow startup times and users routinely report out of memory errors.
Some new features for Symbian OS 9.3 include:
- Native support for Wi-Fi 802.11b/g
- USB 2.0 on-the-go
- Firmware over the air (FOTA) provisioning, allowing over the air upgrades
- HSDPA support
- IPSec for UMA services (Voice over IP)
- Improved 3GPP R5 support
- Java JSR 248 support
- Many of the world's leading cell phone manufacturers make Symbian based phones, including: Arima, BenQ, Fujitsu, Lenovo, LG, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, Siemens and Sony Ericsson. Symbian competes directly with Microsoft and its Windows Mobile 2005 smartphone platform