| Corporate/Developer Program Information |
| Company name: |
Symbian Ltd. |
| Company address: |
2-6 Boundary Row, Southwark, London, SE1 8HP, UK |
| Company URL: |
http://www.symbian.com/ |
| Developer Program URL: |
http://www.symbian.com/developer/index.html |
| Developer Program Information & Services |
| Name |
Symbian Developer Network (Symbian DevNet) |
| General Description |
Symbian is a software licensing company, owned by wireless industry leaders. Symbian supplies an open standard operating system for wireless phones, Symbian OS. The Symbian Developer Network portal is the primary network to get access to technical and commercial information and resources. Symbian DevNet provides discussion forums, sample code, a newsletter and technical information and acts as a portal to other such resources and information on partner sites.
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| Technical Services Provided |
- Developer Library
Library of development tools including Symbian OS documentation, examples and source code; information on Symbian's Java strategy; Java developer papers; sample code and other relevant documentation.
- The Symbian DevNet Knowledge Base
Frequently asked questions, defect reports, useful code snippets and other useful development information not available in the SDK documentation.
- DevNet Forum Newsgroups and Forum Archives
Numerous newsgroups organized by technical area, where developers' technical questions can be addressed by fellow developers and/or Symbian DevNet consultants.
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| Business Services Provided |
Symbian provides links to its business partners' services
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| Support for J2ME application distribution (tethered by cable)? |
Yes |
| Support for J2ME application distribution (over-the-air)? |
No |
| Newsletter |
[X] Yes [ ] No Frequency: Bi-weekly |
| Developer Conferences / Events |
Symbian Developer Exposium03 (April 29-30, 2003, ExCel Centre, London, UK) |
| Developer Training Offerings |
Symbian works closely with a group of international training partners to meet the demand for Symbian training. Information about Symbian's own training program is located at http://www.symbian.com/developer/training/index.html. |
| Handsets/Devices that support J2ME platform: |
Not applicable
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| Application Certification |
| Certification Program Name |
None |
| URL address where information can be found on application certification: |
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| If relevant, describe different certification types/levels: |
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| Please describe full certification process (include forms that need to be filled out by developer): |
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| Cost to developer for application certification: |
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| Partnership Information |
| URL address where information on partnering can be found: |
http://www.symbian.com/partners/partners.html |
| If relevant, please describe different partnership types/levels: |
Symbian's partner program is focused on design, technology, software services and device manufacturing companies rather than individual developers. Developers are served by the Symbian Developer Network as described above.
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| Please describe full partnership process to distribute applications to customer base (include forms that need to filled out): |
Not applicable
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| Revenue share model for application distribution: |
Not applicable |