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Jan/Feb 2005
Latest version of Symbian adds configurability, remote management
Smart mobile phones may be a recent phenomenon; but the latest version 9 release of the Symbian operating system for advanced mobiles reinforces its position with a range of new enterprise functions. These include enhanced filtering and sorting of IMAP email, as well as new group scheduling capabilities, including accepting meeting invitations from standard PIM applications such as Lotus Notes or Microsoft Outlook. Remote management has been enhanced. Network operators and enterprise managers will be able to access a user's phone over the air to deploy new network services or applications, the company says, or to diagnose a problem. Security has also been tightened. Version 9's security model is said to help protect networks, phones and users' personal information more effectively from malware.
The new release supports the coming generation of multi-mega-pixel cameraphones, and provides enhanced support for 3D graphics, multimedia and graphics acceleration, as well as supporting different screen sizes and orientations. All in all, the march of Symbian into the world of full mobile computing continues unabated. - as third-party toolkit announced for Symbian If you want more powerful or flexible management capabilities than those that come as standard with smartphones, you may be pleased to hear about plans by French developer BVRP Software to create a set of third-party management tools for the Symbian platform. It should be available during the first quarter of this year. The company already offers tools for a range of existing mobile phones, but to develop the Symbian version it is drawing on the big guns of m-Network, a smartphone integration engine from Intuwave. As Intuwave product manager Rob Davis explains: "Often, the PC software shipped with smartphones is not 'best of breed' and people are sometimes unaware that other such tools can be bought separately." BVRP, a French-based company, says that with m-Network, it should be able to get the system up and running "within weeks rather than months."
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