Cingular and Symbian hook up for dev program
Europe's favorite smartphone platform mixed in with a little American GSM love: strange bedfellows, or a match made in heaven? We'll all find out in the coming months, now that Cingular has partnered up with Symbian by joining its "Platinum Partner" program, giving it access to Symbian's tech team, pre-release materials, joint marketing, and (woohoo!) use of the Symbian Partner logo. More importantly, though, Cingular's development partners will now be offered "Symbian Affiliate" status and will have a variety of development materials available directly on Cingular's devCentral site, hopefully calling the relatively quiet American S60 dev scene to action. Of course, none of this stuff means much of anything to us without a beefed-up S60 lineup from Cingular, but with the E62 in the wild and the N75 waiting in the wings, things might just be looking up for Symbian fans this side of the Atlantic.[Via Geekzone]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
zune @ Oct 18th 2006 5:53AM
geezz..the "love" logo sux!
http://www.zuneiscool.com
alex @ Oct 18th 2006 11:14AM
i really hope cingular doesnt try to make their own cingular UI with symbian. please dont follow verizon and sprint into the gutter
mahoney @ Oct 18th 2006 12:33PM
Don't worry alex. Making your own UI for Symbian would not only break most applications (both UIQ and S60) but also make Cingular a defacto Symbian licensee with their own variant.
Not to mention it's a non trivial affair to do that.
Richard @ Oct 18th 2006 8:15PM
Wow!
An AMerican carrier that gets it! Sooooo cool and the best shot yet at the Evil Empire (M$).
Human @ Oct 20th 2006 12:59PM
Look for this conection to start the first major push for mobile ticketing here in the states (buying your concert and sproting event tickets on your phone)