The Symbian Platform Roadmap

December 2009
Welcome!
 So what’s new in December?

Symbian becomes the first platform to include

OpenWF support for the OpenWF graphics standard – in
Symbian^3 kits now, courtesy of Nokia

A complete overhaul of the Print sub-system (new

Print proposal from K3)

Social Social Mobile Framework: easing integration of web

Mobile services into applications (new proposal from
Framework Sasken)

New look
We’ve given the roadmap a bit of a pre-Christmas
for the polish. Do you like the new look? Let us know…
roadmap
 Growth & Momentum
New contributions to the roadmap every month

Day 1 June End 2009

The future 
 Contents

1 The pla/orm  3 The roadmap – feature highlights 

S^1 S^2 S^3 S^4 S^5  S^6 

2 The roadmap – release summaries 
The most widely used open platform today

Used in 46% of smartphones worldwide

Source: Canalys, market share for Q3 2009
 33 Symbian^1 devices so far…

F-03A F-09A SH-04A SH-03B

N97

SH-07A SH-06A SH-05A SH-06A SH-03A

F-01A F-01B F-03B F-08A 5800 5530 Express Nerv
X6
Navi Music

F-04A F-04B F-02B F-02A 5800 Express 5235 5230 N97 Mini SH-05B SH-02B SH-02A SH-01A SH-01B SH-04B Satio
i8910 Music
 The richest mobile platform available today

Apps and UI
Rich UI framework
Enterprise integration
Complete app suite

Middleware
Deep web integration
HD Multimedia
Communications
Location & sensors

Core OS
True multitasking
Secure
Scalable and efficient

A more efficient, scalable and secure core.

The most powerful collection of middleware, a great base for

application development.

Huge scope for customisation and differentiation.

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Location
apps
Video
telephony File manager
Messaging
apps
Conversation
apps
Instant
messaging
Image
editors
Gallery
Video
center
Voice
recorder
Profiles Settings
app
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ensor framework SUPL Home screen widgets TV‐out iCal OpenC SDHC Photo album HSDPA Power manager MTP Contacts VoIP WebDAV Photo upload HSUPA App miniview Album art ARM Cort
Media Image Camera Video Music Screen Content
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sharing UI
PoC Contacts Email
viewer apps editors
Video player
player saver
Help app
control
Home screen

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Phone apps IP Telephony Organizer Dictionary
Graphics
Speech
recognition Web UIs Photos Radio Printing Tech View
Device
UIs control
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UI

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services
VPN client
SIM presence
Image handling Video utilities
framework management connectivity
Input methods

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Generic app
DRM
Messaging
Open services
Legacy Camera
Service API
High level
Internet Remote storage Classic UI UI resources
support middleware metadata services
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Protocols

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Wireless Access Access security Mobile TV
Remote
management
Metadata
Multimedia app
framework
Web
IP App
protocols
Shortlink
connectivity
SVG Tiny App installation

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Security IP App Multimedia UI Home screen Haptics
Networking
Multimedia
IM & Presence DLNA device UI accelerator Web services
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services services framework services services
management
middleware

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Kernel & Data Board Locating Networking Baseband
Multimedia Graphics
HW services support services services services
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OS XML Device Comms Shortlink Imaging
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Security services services framework
WLAN
services extensions
Text

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Over 100,000 man years of development.

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Shipped in over 300 million mobile devices.

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A proven platform.
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1 The pla/orm  3 The roadmap – feature highlights 

S^1 S^2 S^3 S^4 S^5  S^6 

2 The roadmap – release summaries 
 Now H1 2010 H2 2010 H1 2011

S^2 Kits Complete Handsets

available Now

S^3 Kits Complete Handsets

available Q1 2010 From H2 2010

S^4 Kits Complete Handsets

Q1 2010 Q3 2010 From H1 2011

December
2009
 Symbian^2
Key themes

Kits Complete Handsets

S^2 available Now From H1 2010

The first open release of the Symbian platform

A Complete Platform All-new Homescreen

The Symbian platform is a complete solution, stretching
from applications right down to kernel and hardware
adaptation:
  Afull suite of applications built around a UI framework
that supports a great deal of customisation
  Arich middleware layer designed to make all the features
in a mobile device easily available, fostering innovation
above
  Thisall sits above a core OS layer designed specifically to
best deliver on the particular requirements and
constraints of internet-enabled mobile devices
And this is all open source – available to and owned by the
community, free
An updated Homescreen application supports user
customization, embedded widgets and live internet content.
Make the Homescreen the center of your world.
Location Triggering
The Symbian platform already has industry-leading support
for location technologies such as GPS and cell based
positioning.
Symbian^2 adds platform support allowing an application to
trigger a custom event when the user enters or leaves a
defined trigger area: “Get ready to get off the train, your
station is next”.
In Symbian^2 any application can be location-smart.
 Symbian^3
Key themes
S^3 Kits Complete
available now Q1 2010
Incremental evolution across the platform, a big step forward in user
experience
A big step forward in user experience
Multi page Homescreen – group your widgets (eg “home”
and “work”) and easily swipe between pages
“Single tap" support throughout the UI – no more "tap to
select, tap again to action"
Enhanced look and feel in applications such as Photos,
where effects such as view transitions, semi-transparency
and fades are being delivered on top of the New Graphics
Architecture
Multi-touch gesture support (swipes, pinches etc) comes to
many applications, including Photos and Video Player
One-click connectivity for all applications – significant
simplification of the "connecting” dialogs to deliver a
smoother user experience
Handsets
From H2 2010
Improved music and video
HD TV - watch movies from your phone on a big screen
(HDMI output, large video file support)
See playlists, track titles and artists on your Bluetooth
headset’s display (AVRCP v1.4)
For developers: Qt runtime pre-integrated
In Symbian^4 Qt will become the standard runtime for
applications. It is available as an option in kits as of S^3 to
allow developers to start exploring this new world.
Better streaming – sounding clear
A new high performance networking architecture enabling
broadband speeds, ideal for streaming high definition video
and high quality VoIP calls
 Symbian^4
Key themes
S^4 Kits
Q1 2010
A revolution in user experience, built on Qt
New User Experience
Symbian^4 delivers a whole new user interface for
Symbian devices.
The on-screen layout of applications will be updated and
navigation will be streamlined to provide a simpler and
more fluent user experience.
The suite of platform applications themselves will be re-
designed and re-organised to support this elegant and
accessible paradigm, features being grouped to maximise
ease of use.
The user interface will take full advantage of next
generation graphics to incorporate visually appealing
effects such as transparency and transitions.
This all adds up to a winning user experience for devices
based on Symbian^4.
Complete Handsets
Q3 2010 From H1 2011
Enhanced Applications
The new user experience brings specific benefits to many
applications, for example:
  InMessaging the main views are being enhanced to
provide a conversation-based view that gives the user the
full context of a discussion when reading and replying.
  Calendar
gains email integration, allowing meeting
requests to be sent and responded to from within the
Calendar UI.
Qt - a revolution in app development
In Symbian^4 Qt becomes the standard environment in
which all native applications are written and run.
This brings the simplicity of the Qt development
environment to Symbian developers, coupled with the power
of the underlying Symbian platform.
1 The pla/orm  3 The roadmap – feature highlights 

S^1 S^2 S^3 S^4 S^5  S^6 

3 The roadmap – release summaries 
 Roadmap highlights
Feature Complete Dates
2009 2010 2011

S^2 S^3 S^4 S^5

Single tap
enhancements
UI & Apps

Widget-
Multipage
based
Homescreen
Homescreen
CalDAV

BT AVRCP v1.4
Middleware

Location-
based FreeWay
triggering
HDMI
Core OS

ScreenPlay

December
2009
 Qt
New application and UI framework

“Cut development time by nearly 50%”

“Reduces code by more than 50%”
“Deploy 50% faster because of better code maintainability”

Google Earth VLC KDE

94% 76%

“Qt meets or exceeds my “Qt has increased my

100,000+ developers expectations” productivity”
5000+ companies working with Qt

Widely used Loved by developers

Animations … Physics … Transitions

Kinetic scrolling … 3D effects
Gestures … Multitouch
Integrated Modular Scales to fit
Webkit architecture hardware
rendering allows easy capabilities
engine extension

Strong architecture Delivering stunning effects

Source: Qt website
 Qt
New application and UI framework

Up to and
S^2 S^3 S^4 and beyond…
including

Devices Devices Devices

From H1 2010 From H2 2010 From H1 2011

Qt adopted as the
Qt runtime
primary runtime for
Qt runtime integrated into
applications
available to Symbian^3 kits
download and and available for
Orbit UI framework
install inclusion in
provides enhanced Qt-
devices
based controls

Platform applications
ported to Qt and Orbit
New User Experience
A whole new look, a whole new feel

Nokia concept for a Symbian^4-based device, courtesy Nokia

 New User Experience
A whole new look, a whole new feel

New user experience built on Qt

First-order commands on the new toolbar

Second-order commands on the
integrated menu
Long touch unlocks more

Beautiful effects and transitions

And a complete reworking of the app suite

Coming in S^4
Artist’s concept
Devices
From H1 2011
 Social Mobile Framework
So much stuff to share, so many sites, so little time.

See friends’ tweets through your phonebook

<Your favourite
Surf their photos from your gallery
web services here>
Your web life available in any app, right where you
want it

Symbian’s Social Mobile Framework

Proposal under discussion, targetting S^4

A core set of libraries that ease integration of web

services into applications

An extendable framework allowing adaptors for

particular services to be added

Brought to you by:

 Multicore
Great battery life, performance on demand

Current processor designs are leading to increasingly power-hungry devices.

Multicore processors are designed to achieve better performance with given
battery life.

Symbian: designed for low power consumption from the ground up.

Now leading the next wave of energy efficiency.

Multicore support in Symbian, optimized for ARM and low power environments.
 Multicore
Great battery life, performance on demand

Multicore
Kernel support for multicore devices will be
shipping
Symbian^3 running on dual S^3
Cortex-A9 SoC

2011

2010

2009

Demo on ARM11 Product-ready

MPCore 2008 S^4 multicore support

2006 FPGA Demo on

Cortex-A9
Key usecases optimised to
2004 S^5 take full advantage of
multicore

Symbian and ARM

SMP work initiated
 S.H.A.I.
Symbian Hardware Abstraction Interface

Additional
common
A common Symbian platform
interface code
aligned with
industry Simplified
standards Adaptation adaptation
Hardware layer

SHAI is a new, open interface being adopted and developed by a range of hardware vendors

Hardware adaptation becomes easier – the latest hardware is available sooner, device
manufacturers can spend more time making their devices great.

Driving speed, efficiency and time-to-market.

 S.H.A.I.
Symbian Hardware Abstraction Interface

Symbian

Adaptation
Hardware

Review of existing
interfaces completed, the The bulk of new SHAI
Some existing interfaces first new SHAI components components are
Any remaining SHAI
approved to become part of may be delivered delivered
components are
SHAI immediately completed

S^3 S^4 S^5 S^6

Devices Devices Devices Devices

From H2 2010 From H1 2011 From H2 2011 From H1 2012
Reader’s Guide

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 Further Information

  The top level roadmap:

  http://developer.symbian.org/wiki/index.php/Roadmap_for_the_Symbian_Platform

  An overview of each release, eg Symbian^3:

  http://developer.symbian.org/wiki/index.php/Symbian%5E3

  More detailed roadmap information

  http://developer.symbian.org/wiki/index.php/Symbian_Foundation_Technology_Roadmaps

  The release plan

  http://developer.symbian.org/wiki/index.php/Platform_Release_Plan
 How to read the plan (1)

  The yellow arrow depicts the evolving Symbian platform codeline

  Release ‘blobs’ show that each Symbian platform release is a snapshot
of the codeline at that time

Symbian^4
Symbian^2

Symbian^3

6 months

  Each blob represents a release reaching “functionally complete”

  Prior to “functionally complete” the prime focus for contributions is
on extending and enhancing the platform
  At “functionally complete” feature growth for the release ceases
and the focus for contribution moves fully towards improving
stability. In effect the release branches away from the main line of
development.

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 How to read the plan (2)

  Each release on the roadmap evolves through a few distinct

phases…

Functionally
Complete Hardened Retired
Symbian^X

Feature
Hardening Stable
growth

New features Focus moves to Defect fixes are

are developed collectively still accepted but
and submitted driving up the main focus for
to the MCL stability defect fixing is on
later releases

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 Change history

NB The latest version of the platform plan is always available at

http://developer.symbian.org/main/source/platform/

  December 2009
  Restructured
  Updated all content for cleaner look
  September 2009
  Orange added as a contributor
  Vision, platform overview and roadmap pages tweaked
  August 2009:
  Spotlight on “location-based triggering” added in place of UX

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