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The Symbian Platform Plan Collaboration-powered evolution September 2009

Welcome!

Welcome!

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Contents The Platform

How Symbian delivers the world’s richest mobile platform

Future highlights Hot developments in the plan

The Plan

Forthcoming Symbian platform releases

Vision of an independent open platform Compatible

Applications can target the broadest range of devices across global markets.

The richest mobile platform.

Compelling

Complete

Helping vendors to deliver the next era of mobile computing devices.

All the software you need to build a leadingedge mobile device to ship in any market.

& Independent and royalty-free.

Open

Built by the community, for the community.

The richest mobile OS Apps & UI

Fully customisable app suite Productivity apps

Web apps

Middleware

Comms apps

Multimedia apps

Location apps

Device management apps

Location MW

Comms MW

Security MW

Device Mgmt

•  Flexible UI supporting touch and key interfaces

User Interface

•  Full suite of applications •  Huge scope to customise and differentiate

Runtimes

Multimedia MW

Rich set of middleware APIs unlocks innovation •  Webkit-based web runtime for easy app creation

Web MW

UI MW

•  Qt for development of powerful native apps •  Leading on convergence: Web, high bandwidth data networking, audio and video, location…

World class OS layer

OS

Security

OS Services

Graphics

Data comms

Telephony

Multimedia

•  Real-time, fully multi-tasking microkernel •  Industry-leading security implementation •  Power and memory efficient •  Scales from mass market to high end hardware

Proven in over ¼ billion smart devices, so far…

Brought to you by… Thanks to our growing number of contributors…

April

June

September

Contents The Platform

How Symbian delivers the world’s richest mobile platform

Future highlights Hot developments in the plan

The Plan

Forthcoming Symbian platform releases

Forthcoming platform highlights Apps & UI

Productivity apps

Web apps

Middleware

OS

Security

Comms apps

Multimedia apps

User Interface Location apps

Device management apps

Location MW

Comms MW

Security MW

Device Mgmt

OS Services

Graphics

Runtimes

Web MW

Data comms

Location-based triggering

Multimedia MW

UI MW

Personal comms

Multimedia

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Making GPS smart

Location-based triggering “Get ready to get off the train, your station is next”

Imagine your phone automatically switching to “home” mode, ignoring email and bouncing work calls

“You’re passing the bank, didn’t you want to deposit a cheque?”

ering is… g ig tr d e s ba n o ti a Loc owing an ll a rt o p p u s rm o tf Pla r a custom e g ig tr to n o ti a c li app rs or te n e r e s u e th n e h event w igger area leaves a defined tr an^2 Here now, in Symbi

Any application can be location-smart. What can you imagine?

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Forthcoming platform highlights Apps & UI

Productivity apps

Web apps

Middleware

OS

Security

Comms apps

Multimedia apps

User Interface Location apps

Device management apps

Location MW

Comms MW

Security MW

Device Mgmt

OS Services

Graphics

Runtimes

Web MW

Data comms

Multimedia MW

UI MW

Personal comms

S.H.A.I.

Multimedia

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Solving a critical industry challenge

S.H.A.I. Because glue is bad for the industry’s health

Mobile software platform Adaptation Hardware Adaptation code can represent 25-30% of total effort in making a mobile device

Most of the code should be common across HW The cost of replicating this across many HW/SW platforms slows down innovation

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S.H.A.I. Symbian Hardware Abstraction Interface Symbian platform

Additional common platform code

SHAI Adaptation

Hardware

Smaller adaptation layer

SHAI = A common interface covering all mobile device hardware SHAI = Maximising common code and minimising adaptation work SHAI = Developed by the community and adopted by industry HW vendors SHAI = Saving effort, speeding innovation. 12

Contents The Platform

How Symbian delivers the world’s richest mobile platform

Future highlights Hot developments in the plan

The Plan

Forthcoming Symbian platform releases

The Symbian Foundation Platform Plan 2009

S^2

2010

2011

S^3

Symbian^2

Symbian^3

• Customisable home screen supporting embedded widgets

• Graphics support for advanced layering and effects

• Apps and services able to take action in response to the user’s changing location

• Improved networking architecture, ideal for streaming high definition content

Symbian^5

Schedule reflects functionally complete date for each release

Symbian^4

• The proprietary software upon which the Symbian Platform was based: Symbian OS v9.4 & S60 5.0

Symbian^3

Symbian^2

Symbian^1

“Symbian^1”

S^4

Symbian^4

• Fresh new user experience • Qt becomes the standard app development environment

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Symbian Foundation Platform Plan Open for contribution 2009

2010

2011 Milestone dates to be confirmed by Release Council

Symbian^2

Functionally Complete

Hardened

Symbian^3

Functionally Complete

Hardened

Symbian^4

Functionally Complete

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Hardened

Symbian^2 2009

Symbian^2

Functionally Complete

2010

2011

Hardened

PDK builds available starting here

Highlights include…   UI Makeover Step 1: Web Runtime offers web design on mobile   Personal: All-new home screen supporting user customization, embedded widgets and internet content   Adaptable: Support for multiple form factors and input methods (touch, non-touch, flexible aspect ratios and resolutions)   Dynamic: Location based event framework that allows apps to take action in response to the user’s changing location 16

Symbian^3 2009

2010

Symbian^3

Functionally Complete

2011

Hardened

PDK builds available starting here

Highlights include…   UI makeover step 2: Graphics support for advanced layering and effects (eg semi-transparent content layered over video, complex animated transitions between apps)   Sounding clear: A new high performance networking architecture enabling broadband speeds, ideal for streaming high definition video and high quality VoIP calls   Movie time: Support for files >2GB in size, enough for full length HD movies; Full HDMI support with HDCP   Simplifying internet access: Adaptive WLAN background scanning, energy efficient 17

Symbian^4 2009

2010

Symbian^4

Functionally Complete

2011 Hardened

PDK builds available starting here

Highlights include…   UI makeover complete: Direct UI – a complete refresh of the touch UI   Great new app development environment: Qt integrated as the primary runtime

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Reader’s Guide

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How to read the plan (1)   The

yellow arrow depicts the evolving Symbian platform codeline   Release ‘blobs’ show that each Symbian platform release is a snapshot of the codeline at that time Symbian^4

Symbian^3

Symbian^2 6 months

  Each

blob represents a release reaching “functionally complete”   Prior to “functionally complete” the prime focus for contributions is on extending and enhancing the platform   At “functionally complete” feature growth for the release ceases and the focus for contribution moves fully towards improving stability. In effect the release branches away from the main line of development. 20

How to read the plan (2)  

Each release on the roadmap evolves through a few distinct phases…

Symbian^X

Functionally Complete Feature growth

New features are developed and submitted to the MCL

Retired

Hardened Stable

Hardening

Focus moves to collectively driving up stability

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Defect fixes are still accepted but the main focus for defect fixing is on later releases

Change history NB The latest version of the platform plan is always available at http://developer.symbian.org/main/source/platform/  

18th September 2009    

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14th August 2009:  

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Orange added as a contributor Vision, platform overview and roadmap pages tweaked Spotlight on “location-based triggering” added in place of UX

8th July 2009:        

Added UX spotlight pages Added SHAI spotlight pages Added a system model slide Samsung and Alten added as contributors

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