The Symbian Platform Roadmap

September 2010

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Welcome!

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 So what’s new?
Hot news

✓ After seeing a number of devices ship in Japan

this year, the S^2 codeline is now completely
Symbian^2 stable and the Release Council have declared it
is archived closed. All the code plus the final set of kits will
remain available on Symbian’s web site while the
community get on with S^3 and S^4.

The C6-01, C7 and E7 have joined the

More S^3
N8 in Nokia’s S^3-based device line-up.
devices All are expected to ship this year.

The biggest event in the Symbian calendar is

coming round again in November, this time in
SEE 2010 Amsterdam. There’s bound to be big news, so
get over to www.see2010.org and book your
place now – it’s free!

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 Symbian Platform Roadmap
Evolving experiences

Powered by Symbian^3:
Nokia’s C6-01, C7, N8 & E7

Faster and more responsive.

New home screen, improvements
across the app suite.

Complete: Now Complete: H2 2010

Devices: Now Devices: Viable H1 2011

S^1! S^2.0! S^3.0! S^4.0!

Complete: Now
Devices: Sept 2010

The first platform release

S60 5.0 Ease and simplicity: a whole new touch UI.
hosted by the Symbian
Symbian OS v9.4 Qt adopted for native app development.
Foundation.
The pre-existing
codebase that
seeded the
Symbian
Five S^2-based devices
Foundation are shipping in Japan

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 Now H2 2010 H1 2011

5 devices shipping
in Japan
The first platform
S^2.0! Kits Handsets release hosted by the
Available On sale
Symbian Foundation

Starting with the Nokia N8

Faster, more
responsive UI.
S^3.0! Kits Complete Handsets New home screen,
Available Now Sept 2010
improvements across
the app suite.

A whole new touch UI.

S^4.0! Kernel Kit Full Kits Complete Handsets Qt adopted for native
Available H2 2010 H2 2010 Viable H1 2011
app development

Notes: “Complete” equates to functional

completion. “Handsets” dates are a guide based on
a typical 3-9 month gap between “Complete” and
Sept first handset shipment. Actual device shipment
2010 dates are the domain of device creators.
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 App development is easy
Making it simple to harness the power of the platform

S^1! S^2.0! S^3.0! S^4.0!

Making it easy to create powerful applications

Great IDE, including drag-n-drop UI creation

Other available runtimes include…

WRT – Web Technologies

HTML, CSS and JavaScript. JRT

Anyone who can create a web page can Open runtime for
develop an app for Symbian. JavaTm applications Flash Lite

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[7]
 Release  summaries  
Feature  spotlights  
Appendices:  
Pla0orm  overview  
Reader’s  guide  to  the  roadmap  

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 Symbian^3
Key themes

S^3 Kits Complete Handsets

Available Now Sept 2010

Evolution across the platform, a big step forward in user experience

A Big Step Forward in User Experience Improved Music and Video

Multi page Homescreen – group your widgets (eg HDMI: Watch movies and play games on a big TV screen,
“home” and “work”) and easily swipe between pages; listen to streaming music on your hifi
download and add widgets using the new widget manager
See playlists, track titles and artists on your Bluetooth
“Single tap" support throughout the UI: no more "tap to headset’s display (Bluetooth AVRCP v1.4)
select, tap again to action"
Download podcasts and manage subscriptions with the new
A faster UI including effects such as view transitions, Podcasts app
semi-transparency and fades - delivered on top of
ScreenPlay, Symbian’s new graphics architecture The Radio app gains music store integration - “More info”
and “Buy now” buttons use RT+ metadata to make the radio
Multi-touch gesture support (swipes, pinches etc) experience interactive
comes to many applications, including Photos and Video
Player
For Developers: Qt Runtime Pre-integrated
One-click connectivity streamlines the experience of
going on line. High bandwidth uploads and jitter-free Start to take advantage of Qt’s power and ease of
streaming are delivered by FreeWay, Symbian’s new data development. Qt 4.6 is pre-integrated into S^3 kits and
networking architecture. available in S^3 devices.

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 Symbian^4
Key themes

S^4 Kernel Kit

Available
Full Kits
H2 2010
Complete
H2 2010
Handsets
Viable H1 2011

A whole new touch UI, built on Qt

The Touch UI Reworked Qt – A Revolution in App Development

Symbian^4 will deliver a whole new user interface for In Symbian^4 Qt becomes the standard environment in
Symbian devices. which all native applications are written and run.
This brings the simplicity of the Qt development
The on-screen layout of applications will be updated and
environment to Symbian developers, coupled with the
navigation will be streamlined to provide a simpler and
power of the underlying Symbian platform.
more fluent user experience.
Qt is loved by developers as it is quick and easy to create
The suite of platform applications will be re-designed and powerful yet maintainable applications. Qt’s modular and
re-organised to support this elegant and accessible scaleable architecture makes it a great fit for cutting edge
paradigm, features being grouped to maximise ease of mobile devices.
use.

The user interface will take full advantage of ScreenPlay,

the new graphics architecture introduced in S^3, to Tighter Web Integration
incorporate visually stunning effects such as transparency
The Social Mobile Framework, introduced in Symbian^4,
and transitions.
provides all the building blocks necessary for all of the most
This all adds up to a winning user experience for devices popular web-based services to be integrated seamlessly into
based on Symbian^4. both platform and 3rd party applications.

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 Release  summaries  
Feature  spotlights  
Appendices:  
Pla0orm  overview  
Reader’s  guide  to  the  roadmap  

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 Qt
New application and UI framework

“Cut development time by nearly 50%”

“Reduces code by more than 50%”
“Deploy 50% faster because of better code maintainability”

Google Earth VLC KDE

94% 76%

“Qt meets or exceeds my “Qt has increased my

100,000+ developers expectations” productivity”
5000+ companies working with Qt

Widely used Loved by developers

Animations … Physics … Transitions

Kinetic scrolling … 3D effects
Gestures … Multitouch
Integrated Modular Scales to fit
Webkit architecture hardware
rendering allows easy capabilities
engine extension

Strong architecture Delivering stunning effects

Source: Qt website [12]
 Qt
New application and UI framework

Up to and
S^2 S^3 S^4 and beyond…
including

Devices Devices Devices

Now From H2 2010 From H1 2011

Qt adopted as the
primary runtime for
Qt runtime Qt runtime
applications
available to integrated into
download and Symbian^3 kits Orbit UI framework
install and devices
provides enhanced Qt-
based controls

Platform applications
ported to Qt and Orbit

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 Symbian^4 UI Refresh
A whole new look, a whole new feel

Tap indicators to access Back button cuts down hard

notifications panel key requirements

Titlebar and toolbar can be

hidden for full-screen Integrated menu frees up
application views valuable screen space

New toolbar provides direct

Long touch unlocks access to the most useful
context-specific actions commands

Artist’s rendering

S^4 Devices
Coming in In 2011

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 Social Mobile Framework
So much stuff to share, so many sites, so little time.

See friends’ tweets through your phonebook <Your favourite

Surf their photos from your gallery web services here>
Your web life available in any app, right where you
want it

Symbian’s Social Mobile Framework S^4

A core set of libraries that ease integration of web

services into applications

An extendable framework allowing adaptors for

individual services to be added

Brought to you by:

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 S.H.A.I.
Symbian Hardware Abstraction Interface

Additional
common
A common Symbian platform
interface code
aligned with
industry Simplified
standards Adaptation adaptation
Hardware layer

SHAI is a set of open interfaces being adopted and developed by a range of hardware vendors

Hardware adaptation becomes easier – the latest hardware is available sooner, device
manufacturers can spend more time making their devices great.

Driving speed, efficiency and time-to-market.

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 Release  summaries  
Feature  spotlights  
Appendices:  
Pla2orm  overview  
Reader’s  guide  to  the  roadmap  

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 Driven by contribution
Building Symbian^3 together

21 separate companies & individuals have contributed features

S^3 into S^3, together making it what it is. And that’s not counting all
our keen bug fixers.

Iwan Junianto Sequence

Flavio Castelli EmbedDev Point
Lukasz Forynski Software

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The most widely used mobile platform today (and it’s open)
Used in 44% of smartphones worldwide
27 million handsets shipped in Q2 2010
Source: Canalys, market share for Q2 2010

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 The richest mobile platform available today

Apps and UI
Rich UI framework
Enterprise integration
Complete app suite

Middleware
Deep web integration
HD Multimedia
Communications
Location & sensors

Core OS
True multitasking
Secure
Scalable and efficient

A more efficient, scalable and secure core.

The most powerful collection of middleware, a great base for

application development.

Huge scope for customisation – get noticed.

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Over 100,000 man years of development.

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Shipped in over 390 million mobile devices.

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A rich & proven platform.

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 Release  summaries  
Feature  spotlights  
Appendices:  
Pla0orm  overview  
Reader’s  guide  to  the  roadmap  

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 Further Information

  An overview of the platform

  www.symbian.org/symbian-platform

  An introduction for app developers

  www.symbian.org/symbian-platform/developing-for-symbian

  Detailed platform roadmaps for developers

  developer.symbian.org/roadmap

  The release plan

  developer.symbian.org/wiki/index.php/Platform_Release_Plan

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 Change history

NB The latest version of the platform roadmap is always available

at: developer.symbian.org/roadmap

  September 2010
  New look roadmap summary and developer story slides
  Updated stats in the platform section
  Updated the contribution stats
  June 2010
  Status updates for S^2, S^3, S^4
  Updated list of shipping devices & contribution summary
  March 2010
  S^3 and S^4 status updated
  Multicore schedule corrected

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