Smartphones are small form-factor, voice centric devices with information capability. In addition, Smartphones have rich information browsing capabilities and offer significant opportunities for both enterprise and consumer computing applications. Here at CeBIT, Ericsson announced the first Symbian Smartphone, the R380. As new easy to use devices like the R380 are launched we will see the market for the Wireless Information Device industry gain speed. The second of the mass markets Symbian is focused on is the Communicator market.
Communicators are portable, information centric devices with voice capabilities.
Through its Device Family reference designs for Communicators, Symbian is focused on helping device manufacturers provide well positioned products designed to meet the requirements of the mainstream user. Realising the mobile professional's needs for a powerful yet user friendly device, Psion has previewed a range of new groundbreaking Symbian Communicators featuring built-in Java technology. Java will help further establish EPOC within both enterprise and consumer computing. Symbian is ideally positioned to a key enabler in the Wireless Information Device industry for bringing together Java, WAP, Bluetooth and future wireless industry standards. As an example of the broad industry co-operation which is emerging within the growing market for Wireless Information Devices, both Sun and Symbian announced relationships with Japanese network operator NTT DoCoMo over the last few days.