Peroon reduces cost of Symbian OS™ multi-platform application development and increases application development productivity

Or-Yehuda, Israel – December 14, 2004, 2004.  Peroon, a leading provider of mobile porting products and solutions, today announced the availability of its S2U porting solution for Symbian OS, the leading operating system for smartphones. S2U enables automatic porting of Nokia Series 60 C++ applications to UIQ and is available free of charge on www.symbian.com/developer/tools.html

S2U is an add-on to the standard UIQ 2.1 SDKs which enables Nokia Series 60 v1.x native AVKON based C++ applications to be built, and executed as native UIQ v2.0/2.1 applications using the standard UIQ build procedure. The ultimate result is that a Symbian OS applications developer can use a single application code base on both the Nokia Series 60 and UIQ platforms, whilst substantially reducing the total cost of multi-platform application development, shortening development cycles and increasing productivity.

Anatoly Kardash, CTO, Peroon said, “S2U substitutes the re-coding of major application components when porting from Series 60 to UIQ and therefore greatly reduces efforts and the complexity sometimes involved in the porting process.”

Ian Weston, VP Partner Support, Symbian, said, “S2U marks an important milestone in our vision of enabling a single Symbian C++ code base to natively support multiple Symbian OS UI platforms.  Peroon’s S2U will help reduce costs for Symbian OS applications developers and enable them to increase productivity and revenue.”  

In Q1 of 2005, Peroon plans to launch additional automatic Symbian OS porting tools which will support UIQ 3.0.

About Peroon

Established in 2001, Peroon R&D Ltd., is a leading provider of Symbian OS- based porting products, custom mobile applications and embedded software development services.  Peroon is a Symbian Platinum Partner and is the only Symbian Training Partner in Israel. Peroon customers include Smartphone manufacturers, OS vendors, semiconductor companies, ISVs and operators. For further information about Peroon, please see www.peroon.co.il

About Symbian Ltd

Symbian is a software licensing company that develops and licenses Symbian OS, the global open industry standard operating system for advanced, data-enabled mobile phones.

Symbian licenses Symbian OS to the world’s leading handset manufacturers. The following Symbian OS licensees have Symbian OS-based mobile phones in production and development: Arima, BenQ, Fujitsu for NTT DoCoMo FOMA, LG, Lenovo, Motorola, Nokia, Panasonic, Sendo, Siemens, Samsung and Sony Ericsson. In 2003, over 6.67 million Symbian OS-based mobile phones were sold worldwide and close to 20 million have been sold to date.

Symbian has its headquarters in London, United Kingdom with offices in the United States, Europe and Asia (Bangalore, Beijing, Seoul and Tokyo).  For further information about Symbian please see www.symbian.com or email press@symbian.com.