LONDON, October 21 /PRNewswire/ --

- Further semiconductor & device manufacturers, service & software 
developers and financial services firms reinforce the global appeal of the 
Symbian Foundation platform

On the first day of the 2008 Symbian Smartphone Show, the ten initial
board members of the Symbian Foundation (AT&T, LG Electronics, Motorola,
Nokia, NTT DOCOMO, Samsung Electronics, Sony Ericsson, ST-NXP Wireless, Texas
Instruments and Vodafone) have welcomed the latest supporters of the Symbian
Foundation initiative.

"We are delighted to see more than fifty companies now confirming their
support for plans to create the world's most open platform for mobile
devices," said Kris Rinne, senior vice president, architecture and planning,
AT&T on behalf of the initial board members. "Plans to establish the
foundation are proceeding as planned; we anticipate even stronger support by
the time the foundation begins operations, which we expect to be during the
first half of 2009. The Symbian Foundation platform offering will be the most
proven and successful open mobile platform, which will be available royalty
free for members from the foundation's first day of operations. Making the
platform available in open source by June 2010 will only enhance its appeal
to developers, solutions providers and network operators around the world."

Further support for the planned Symbian Foundation has come from 12 more
companies, ARM, CIeNET, Flander, FUJISOFT, Huawei, Inmote, InnoPath Software,
Red Bend, Scalado, Symsource, TRANGO Virtual Processors and Visa, who added
their endorsements to the forty companies already announced as supporters of
the foundation initiative.

"The establishment of the Symbian Foundation will enable easier access to
a proven mobile-rich operating system, enabling continuous innovation and
development with leading-edge technology that we have come to expect within
the mobile industry," said Ian Drew, VP Marketing, ARM. "As the market leader
in CPU architecture, ARM has a history of unleashing new features that
enhance the user experience of operating systems and we look forward to
continuing this with Symbian Foundation members in the future. We anticipate
that our handset and semiconductor Partners will accelerate the introduction
of new, higher performance devices built on the Symbian Foundation platform."

"CIeNET believes the Symbian Foundation will greatly reduce time to
market for both mobile phone manufacturers and application developers," said
Julian Chen, Deputy GM at CIeNET Technologies. "As the leading technical
consulting company in the telecom and embedded field in China, CIeNET has
already used Symbian OS, UIQ, and S60 software to deliver applications with
best in class user experiences on various mobile phone models for our
customers. We expect to leverage our mobile phone and application experience
to serve our customers in China in the future, building on the Symbian
Foundation platform."

"Flander is pleased to join mobile industry leaders in supporting plans
for the Symbian Foundation, which will drive new innovations in mobile for
the benefit of customers around the world," said Markus Suomi, Flander CEO.
"Flander participates in all phases of smartphone software development and
verification, from early planning and design to development and final
validation. Our people have contributed in the Symbian ecosystem since the
launch of the first Symbian OS based phones and our expertise in Symbian OS
and S60 will benefit the community in the future."

"FUJISOFT, as a major software development company for the Japanese
mobile phone market, welcomes plans for the creation of the Symbian
Foundation," said Minoru Yoshida, Executive Managing Director, FUJISOFT
INCORPORATED. "We are confident that the Symbian Foundation's plans to
standardize mobile device platforms will transform the mobile phone market
for the better. We believe that this will be a great opportunity for us not
only to provide our experience and expertise to mobile phone manufacturers
around the world, but also to contribute to the growth and development of the
global ecosystem around the Symbian Foundation platform."

"Huawei is excited by the plans for the Symbian Foundation," said Li
Jilin, Huawei Communications Vice President. "We look forward to
participating in the work of the Symbian Foundation and using the
foundation's platform to deliver a portfolio of devices for mobile network
operators around the world. We believe that the Symbian Foundation ecosystem
will enable innovation which will benefit users and drive increased customer
satisfaction."

"Inmote welcomes the Symbian Foundation initiative. This will be a new
era for the foundation's platform, where more openness will drive new
application concepts from a larger community of entrepreneurs and developers
within the Symbian Foundation ecosystem," said Rene Heuven, CEO of Inmote.
"With our strong background in Symbian OS we expect increased demand for our
training and consultancy services. Inmote is committed to joining the
foundation and will continue to extend and improve its portfolio of training
and development services for the Symbian Foundation platform."

"InnoPath Software welcomes plans to create the Symbian Foundation, with
its goals of furthering the availability of feature-rich mobile phones for
the global market by building on the platform's strong installed base and
developer community," said John Fazio, President and CEO. "InnoPath,
currently a member of the Symbian Platinum Partner Program and an industry
leader in end-to-end Mobile Device Management, offers solutions both for
wireless operators and device manufacturers. InnoPath's Mobile Device
Management, deployed on Symbian OS-based phones today, allows operators to
offer better customer care at lower cost and with greater user satisfaction."

"Red Bend believes that the Symbian Foundation will create an open
software platform that will raise the bar for mobile applications and
services," said Morten Grauballe, EVP Platforms & Ecosystem at Red Bend. "As
the leading provider of firmware over-the-air (FOTA) software for Symbian 
OS-based handsets, Red Bend intends to join the foundation. Our expertise
will enable foundation members to open up new revenue streams, by delivering
the next generation of features, applications and services over the air to
consumers using devices built on the Symbian Foundation platform."

"Scalado supports plans for the Symbian Foundation," said Mats Jacobson,
CEO of Scalado. "As an established part of the Symbian ecosystem, Scalado
will bring best in class imaging technology to ensure that the Symbian
Foundation platform can provide superior imaging experience and performance
for end users. Additionally, Scalado will strengthen its R&D to optimize
imaging software technologies for the Symbian Foundation platform, so that
the whole image chain, from sensor to applications will provide world leading
imaging experience and digital still camera performance. We believe this will
help the Symbian Foundation platform to become a unified, strong, complete
and accessible OS that will be the platform of choice for future smart camera
phones."

"Symsource has been an enthusiastic proponent of plans for the Symbian
Foundation since their announcement and we congratulate the mobile leaders
behind this initiative," said Tim Ocock, VP, Business Development at
Symsource. "This visionary move will act as a catalyst for the mobile
software ecosystem in expanding the kinds of innovative devices, products and
services that can be created. As a boutique mobile development practice with
the highest proportion of Accredited Symbian Developers amongst our peers we
will be ideally placed to help members of the Symbian Foundation ecosystem
fulfill their mobile aspirations."

"TRANGO Virtual Processors is an enthusiastic supporter of the
foundation's vision of an open, complete, and royalty-free software platform
for mobile communications," said Brad Suessmith, TRANGO Senior VP and GM.
"OEMs, carriers and software developers will all benefit from growth of the
existing strong support base for Symbian OS. Most importantly, consumers will
have a wider range of solutions to choose from, available from the newly
expanded ecosystem. We expect that TRANGO's history of providing enhanced
security and portability will contribute greatly to the rapid adoption and
continued success of the foundation's open platform."

"Visa is excited by the plans for the Symbian Foundation," said Tim
Attinger, Head of Global Product Innovation and Development at Visa Inc.
"Visa's strategy in creating mobile payment services applies the scale and
flexibility of its global payment network to deliver payments and value-added
services on mobile devices that have immediate value to consumers, merchants,
and issuers. Over the last two years, Visa has actively engaged with
financial institutions, wireless operators, handset manufacturers, and
technology providers to develop and test mobile payments and services,
ranging from payments, money transfer services, transaction alerts, merchant
offers, and an ATM and store locator service. We believe that the Symbian
Foundation platform has the potential to accelerate the delivery of those
services to consumers around the globe."

Since plans for the Symbian Foundation were announced, hundreds of
organizations have registered their interest in joining the foundation via
the website at http://www.symbianfoundation.org.

As previously announced, the plans for the establishment of the Symbian
Foundation and royalty-free licensing of foundation software are:

1. The acquisition of Symbian Limited by Nokia, expected to close in Q4,
       2008, subject to regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions.
    2. Software assets are contributed to the foundation, including Symbian
       OS(TM) and S60 by Nokia, UIQ technology by Motorola and Sony Ericsson
       and MOAP(S) by NTT DOCOMO and Fujitsu.
    3. This contributed software will be available under a royalty-free
       license to foundation members from the first day of Symbian Foundation
       operations, expected 1H 2009.
    4. The Foundation will work to unify the platform, with the first unified
       foundation release expected in 2009.
    5. The foundation will work to make the platform available in open source
       by June 2010 (two years from the Symbian Foundation announcement).



Notes for editors:

Further information about the Symbian Foundation is available at
http://www.symbianfoundation.org.

The initial board members of the Symbian Foundation will be represented
at the Symbian Smartphone Show at Earl's Court 2 in London, UK from Tuesday
October 21 to Wednesday October 22. For more information about the show,
please visit http://www.smartphoneshow.com.

Symbian and all Symbian based trademarks and logos are trademarks of
Symbian Software Limited. The operation of the proposed Symbian Foundation
remains subject to regulatory approvals. Until such approvals are obtained,
and the Symbian Foundation has become fully operational, Symbian Software
Limited retains exclusive responsibility for all licensing and marketing
activities related to Symbian OS.

About the Symbian Foundation

On June 24, 2008, mobile industry leaders announced their intent to
create the Symbian Foundation, with membership open to all organizations. At
the same time, Nokia announced its offer to acquire Symbian Limited.
Following the close of that acquisition, Nokia will contribute Symbian OS and
S60 software to the Foundation. Sony Ericsson and Motorola will contribute
technology from UIQ and DOCOMO and Fujitsu have indicated their willingness
to contribute MOAP(S) assets.

The contributed software will be available for all foundation members
under a royalty-free license, from the foundation's first day of operations,
expected to be during the first half of 2009, dependent upon the close of the
acquisition of Symbian Limited by Nokia, expected in the fourth quarter of
2008. From these contributions, the foundation will then provide a unified
platform with a single UI framework. The foundation will make selected
components available as open source at launch and then work to establish the
most complete mobile software offering available in open source.

The foundation's platform will build on Symbian OS, today's leading open
mobile software operating system with more than 200 million mobile phones
already shipped by multiple vendors across more than 250 major network
operators and with tens of thousands of third-party applications already
available for these devices.

The foundation software licensing model and governance has been selected
to secure transparency, encourage contribution and maintain platform
consistency. The foundation will promote collaboration, contributions and
active participation and will operate as a meritocracy. Device manufacturers
will be eligible for seats based on number of Symbian Foundation
platform-based devices shipped, with the other board members selected by
election and contribution. Only one seat will be available per organization
on the board of directors and each of the councils.

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