CANNES, France-Nokia Corp. and Texas Instruments Inc. will offer mobile handset manufacturers and application developers a complete open and standards-based reference platform, combining Nokia’s Series 60 software and development kit, TI’s OMAP processor-based reference platforms and development kit, and the Symbian operating system, the companies said.
The Series 60 platform is a terminal-software platform for smart phones that Nokia licenses to other handset manufacturers as a source-code product. Manufacturers will be able to integrate the Series 60 platform into their own phone designs running on top of the Symbian OS.
The Series 60 platform includes mobile browsing, multimedia messaging and content downloading, as well as a host of personal information management and telephony applications.
The hardware reference platforms are based on TI’s OMAP application processors and 2.5-generation GPRS modem solutions.
