Digia and Symbian partnership strengthens: Digia joins Symbian Platinum Partner program
Press release, Helsinki, December 4th 2002 Digia and Symbian partnership strengthens: Digia joins Symbian Platinum Partner program Digia, a leading designer and developer of Symbian? OS based software for mobile phone manufacturers world-wide, has signed Symbian Platinum Partner agreement. According to the agreement, Digia will offer Symbian OS based product creation services and continue to deliver technology components, training and consulting for Symbian licensees. Symbian licensees include the world's top five handset manufacturers and in total shipped more than 80% of all handsets shipped last year. Digia, a Symbian Competence Centre and a Training Partner since 2000, has successfully executed a large number of product creation and R&D projects for Symbian licensees and is increasingly collaborating with major mobile phone manufacturers. "Digia has been a very proactive partner to Symbian for many years, significantly contributing to the success of our licensees. We are happy to have them join our new flagship partner program as it reaches an unprecedented momentum", said Mr. Gilles Allain, VP, Partnerships and Alliances, Symbian. Enabling Symbian OS based mobile phones Digia offers all the needed system integration and customization services to the licensees of Symbian OS. Mr. Jari Mielonen, CEO of Digia, says: "One of the cornerstones of our long partnership with Symbian has been our mutual goal to create winning technologies and to bring Symbian OS based phones into the market on time and cost efficiently. We are now stepping into the next era of partnership where Digia is contributing to the Symbian ecosystem through deep R&D know-how by providing enhancing and differentiating technologies, tools and components for mobile phone manufacturers." For more information, please contact: Jarkko Virtanen, Marketing and Communications, Digia Inc. Tel. +358 40 7593 603, e-mail: jarkko.virtanen@digia.com Anatolie Papas, PR and Communications, Symbian Ltd. Tel. + 44 207 563 2383, email anatolie.papas@symbian.com Digia Inc. designs and develops Symbian? OS based software for mobile phone manufacturers world-wide. Digia utilizes its extensive experience and technology competence in helping device manufacturers to create and bring their products into the market on time and cost efficiently. Digia works to build a wireless future with its investors, including e.g. Bayview 2000, Cisco Systems, Eqvitec Partners, General Electric, Intel, Investor AB, Sonera and Sony. For more information: www.digia.com © Digia and Digia-based marks and logos are registered trademarks of Digia Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Symbian Symbian develops and licenses Symbian OS, the de facto industry standard operating system for data-enabled mobile phones. Symbian has licensed Symbian OS to the world's top handset manufacturers including Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, Siemens, Sony Ericsson. In total, Symbian OS licensees account for more than 80% of worldwide mobile phone sales. Symbian's mission is to create a mass market for Symbian OS mobile phones by enabling Symbian OS licensees to build winning products. Publicly announced products based on Symbian OS include the Sony Ericsson P800 Smartphone, Nokia 7650, 3650, and N-Gage. For more information Symbian's website can be found at www.symbian.com ------------------------------------------------------------ This information was brought to you by Waymaker http://www.waymaker.net The following files are available for download: http://www.waymaker.net/bitonline/2002/12/04/20021204BIT00050/wkr0001.doc http://www.waymaker.net/bitonline/2002/12/04/20021204BIT00050/wkr0002.pdf