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Symbian Developer Exhibition 2000 London
EPOC Release 6 Formally Released
News links from around the Web about the Symbian Developers exhibition, revealing ER6 in detail
- Nokia, Psion, Intel demo next gen Symbian Quartz kit- Nokia EPOC communicator, PsiPaq and a Quartzpad with 64MB PC100 RAM!...
- ER6 Generic Technology overview- The core technology at the heart of Quartz, Crystal and Pearl...
- MS Mobile Explorer will lose wireless war- Symbian CEO- Symbians' hearts "torn in two" at Microsoft's "heart-rending" troubles...
- Symbian- ER6 launched, ER6.1/ 6.2 on the way...- Official press release, ER6 overview...
- What is EPOC Quartz?- err. This is what Quartz is...
- Video and audio for EPOC devices- As demonstrated for real by Psion on a Quartz prototype running ARM's CODEC software...
- Symbian licence Nokia WAP technology for future EPOC devices- Pearl to include Nokia WAP as standard, rivaling Stinger(WinCE3) after staff losses stalls develop of Symbian's own browser.
- EPOC Release 6 Quartz SDK's now available!- Java (58MB) or C++ (74MB)!! OPL32 is not part of the Quartz platform. (Still in Crystal though)
- Symbian- All about EPOC Release 6, or Symbian Platform v6.0 as it's now called...- First round of published technical papers
- Inside Symbian's Crystal communicator- Microsoft Office converters, and no touchscreen support... yet, but EPOC super netBooks on the way for ER7?!
- Major handset providers to use Symbian platform for next-generation cell phones
- Symbian Delivers More Phone Services
- The WinCE response to ER6!- MS and TI partner for a slimmed down WinCE v3 for phones. (What again?)
- Symbian says on track to win mobile market share
- Symbian- Photo's from the conference
- Wireless with strings- Could the next generation of devices be a pain in the arse?!
- Fabric keyboard materialises- The ultimate add-on keyboard?
- Symbian's phone OS gets browser- Pearl devices to blunt MS's Stinger
- MS-Symbian: The mobile wars are on
- MS and Sagem unveil Stinger wireless Web PDA- GPRS attempt to rival EPOC R380, but heavier, bigger and bloated!
- PMN- A full report of the Symbian Exhibition attended by over 1200 people, by PMN News
- EPOC Quartz Screenshots
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HAL 9210
Web browser
Presentation
Agenda application
Office applications
Contacts application
Crystal device in Telephone mode
System screen
Expected features
- Around £600 (unsubsidised)
- Available May 2001 (Originally planned to be announced in Feb 2001)
- EPOC Release 6 Crystal
- 158x56x27mm closed
- Dual-band 900/1800Mhz EGSM phone (Up to 43.2Kbps, normally 28.8Kbps)
- Proprietary Li-Ion battery
- 4 hours talk time
- 10 hours PDA time
- 230 hours standby
- 4096 colour, 640x200 TFT backlit screen
- Ancillary green on black character screen on case exterior (For phone/SMS operation only)
- No touchscreen
- 150Mhz Infostream processor based on ARM9, optimised for EPOC giving up to three times performance over StrongARM.
- 14MB ROM
- 8MB high speed RAM (Reserved for running programs/video memory only)
- 16MB Flash (Internal disk)
- Multimedia card slot for applications/files (Supplied with 16MB MMC)
- IrDA
- Serial port
- HTML 3.2 browser (Not Opera, though Opera will be available separately), WAP, SMS, Email(POP, SMTP, IMAP4), Fax, Contacts, Agenda, Time, Record, Imaging(Connects to a DigiCam), Word processor, Spreadsheet, Calculator, WAV, AU & AVI video player, Presentation viewer(SHW files), Games, Outlook/Notes Sync, and a CD-ROM containing EPOC Connect , Upgrade tool(to convert old 9000-9110i files), and additional applications that can be installed (Unlike Ericsson R380)...
- Desktop file viewers- Lotus123(all versions), Excel(all versions), MSPowerpoint(all versions), MSWord(All versions), WordPerfect(V4-8), Zip, UNIX gZip/Compress, RTF,
- File converters(bi-directional)- RTF, MSWord v6-2000, Excel v5-2000, MSschedule v7, Outlook 97-2000, Notes v4.5-5.0, Organizer v5-97
- Java (In ROM)
- SyncML support
- No need for PC or existing ISP account to access Internet
- Speakerphone for hands free operation
- Specialised SDK for Java/C++
- Lots of Enterprise solution software in development (Primary market)
- Accessories include belt clip, hands free kit (Wired), hands fee car stand/charger, external car antenna, Peripheral handset (A basic wired hanset to connect to your phone to speak into and listen. Honestly.), serial cable and docking station with a single button to automatically sync via EPOC Connect!- Third party accessories available including clip on camera for videophone operation/snapshots etc.
Rumour has it Ericsson are planning an updated version of the R380 (R580 ?) for later next year that will run Java! - This may be confusing a web pad planned for the US market in late 2001 but it could well be an ER6 Quartz device.
netPad shelved indefinitely? (Like FP>nB?)