Friday, February 19, 2010

Symbian 3.0: HD 1080p, 4G and hardware acceleration

The Symbian Foundation presents the technical characteristics of its next mobile operating system open source. Dubbed Symbian ^ 3 (S ^ 3), the platform looks to the future with the support of the latest mobile technologies.

Thus we find an HDMI output allowing users to connect their phone to the TV to broadcast a movie in high definition (1080p). Symbian has also reviewed the graphics architecture capable of supporting hardware acceleration directly at the interface. With OpenGL ES applications, especially games, should be more fluid without slowing the system. Another significant, intelligent management of bandwidth based applications to connect to the mobile network.

This allows for example to make a priority application of voice over IP or streaming television. In addition to a kiosk to download music, also include improved memory management and multitasking so when several applications are executed simultaneously. Finally widgets are appearing on the home screen. Like the system WebOS Palm Pre, they are based on standard web technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript.

It remains to find the terminals will benefit from this new OS (Lumigon it seems interesting) and how the Symbian 3.0 will be placed facing Meego announced this week by Nokia in partnership with Intel

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