23rd February , 2004

Europe France : 3GSM World Congress, Cannes, France -Nokia, Motorola, Inc. and Teleca are demonstrating the wireless industry's first full-featured smartphone reference design for WCDMA technology by integrating the Series 60 Platform and Symbian OS with Motorola's i.300-20 Innovative Convergence(TM) platform. The reference design is being showcased at the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, France.

The demonstration will showcase rich 3G services including web browsing, audio and video downloading and playback and voice calling in a network-ready device on a 3G network. Motorola's mature 3G technology has received broad developer and industry support, providing a ready-to-deploy solution to Series 60 licensees who will develop 3G mobile devices.

The reference platform was designed and validated by Teleca, a Series 60 Platform Boutique and an integrator with extensive experience in the 3G market. Motorola provided its i.300 hardware and software platform while Nokia provided its applicable Series 60 user interface.

"The 3G reference design will enable Series 60 licensees to ease the development of future smartphones and fully concentrate on product and application differentiation. Time-to-market and an ability to differentiate will be crucial in the 3G market that will provide manufactures and operators with the extensive volume opportunity of the mobile industry," said Antti Vasara, Vice President of Technology Marketing and Sales, Technology Platforms, Nokia.

By integrating Motorola's i.300 platform with the Series 60 Platform, mobile handset manufacturers will be able to bring full-featured smartphones quickly to market, which will help speed the generation of revenue for operators. This combination strives to solve the time to market bottleneck by reducing developers' resource requirements for software integration, while aiming at reducing risk and the costs of this development.

The i.300-20 Innovative Convergence Platform is a comprehensive and flexible platform that provides device developers with the silicon, software, and support needed to build feature-rich multimedia phones and video-communicators. With the i.300-20 platform, products will have highest data speeds, as well as deliver mobile voice, images, data and video communications capabilities.

The Series 60 platform is currently the leading smartphone platform in the world. It is licensed by some of the foremost mobile phone manufacturers in the world including Panasonic, Nokia, Samsung, Sendo and Siemens. The Series 60 Platform encompasses the software, user interface (UI) and applications necessary to create a smartphone. Together with the i.300 platform, mobile handset manufacturers will have a reference design to rapidly build and bring 3G smartphones to market.

The 3G reference design Series 60 Platform and Symbian OS are available now for initial development with full validation scheduled for Q4, 2004.

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