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BANGALORE: Freescale Semiconductor, Nokia Corporation and Symbian Limited are joining together to create the first 3G mobile phone reference design.
The platform will be designed using Freescale's single core modem, targeted to run S60 software on Symbian OS.
The reference design is expected to provide handset manufacturers and operators the first real solution to address the mid-tier 3G market segment, and to reduce device development time by up to 50 percent.
Using Freescale's MXC300-30 platform, the reference design is expected to offer a pre-integrated development and verification environment, providing shorter time-to-market for phone manufacturers, operators and system integrators.
"This collaboration with Freescale and Symbian is an excellent milestone for S60 and 3G evolution. Together we expect to create a solution that further supports the solid volume growth of S60 and serves the mid-tier 3G market segments," said Matti Vänskä, Vice President, Mobile Software Sales and Marketing, Nokia. "The reference design provides our customers an efficient way to introduce S60 devices with advanced capabilities for imaging, multimedia and business services expected in today's 3G handsets."
Elektrobit Group Plc, (HEX: EBGV1), a company specialized in wireless technology design and testing, is implementing this reference design.
Not only is this reference design expected to help handset manufacturers address key market segments, it is designed to simultaneously provide operators the opportunity to add more users to the network and recoup 3G investments, said the press release.
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