MALMO, Sweden, March 02, 2004 (PRIMEZONE) -- Teleca announced today that it has expanded its collaboration with Symbian. Teleca will become one of the first Symbian Independent Design Houses (IDH) and will extend its offerings to include complete smart phone designs.
Teleca, which is already one of the world's leading independent integrators of the Symbian platform, develops reference platforms for both 2G and 3G mobile phones together with several Symbian licensees worldwide. Through this new agreement Teleca expects to expand its smart phone business further.
"We're very pleased to be expanding our collaboration with Symbian. As a Symbian IDH we'll help Symbian licensees with complete smart phone designs. Right now we're experiencing a lot of interest in our leading Symbian expertise from many of the major phone manufacturers," says John Cooper, director, Smart Phones Business Segment at Teleca.
"Symbian is delighted that Teleca, our long-standing partner, has joined the Independent Design House programme. Our new agreement with Teleca will offer reduced development times and give Symbian OS licensees the ability to differentiate their products even more in the end market," says Andy Brannan, VP, Sales at Symbian. "Teleca's announcement adds further momentum to the mobile industry's endorsement of Symbian OS for advanced mobile phones."
Teleca is an international consulting company developing and applying advanced technology. The company's business concept is to strengthen the customers' market position and time to market. Teleca builds and integrates solutions for technology and software intensive customers worldwide. Core values are honesty, reliability and hard work. The company has more than 2,700 employees with operations in 15 countries in Asia, Europe and USA. Teleca is quoted on the Attract40 list of Stockholmsborsen (Stockholm stock exchange). www.teleca.com
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 mobile phone manufacturers including Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, Siemens and Sony Ericsson. Publicly announced products based on Symbian OS include the BenQ P30, Motorola A920 and A925 for 3, Sendo X, Siemens SX-1, NTT DoCoMo FOMA F900i, F2102V and F2051 built by Fujitsu, Sony Ericsson P800 and P900 Smartphones, Nokia 9200 Communicator range as well as the 7700, 7650, 6600, 6620, 3650/3600, 3660/3620 and N-Gage.
Symbian has its headquarters in London, United Kingdom with offices in the US, Europe and Asia. For further information about Symbian, please see www.symbian.com or email press@symbian.com
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