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Game changing initiative attracts praise and further supporters

July 10, 2008 - The initial board members of the Symbian Foundation
have welcomed continuing support from mobile industry leaders for
their plans for the Symbian Foundation and the evolution of Symbian
OS(TM) as the leading, open platform for mobile innovation.

Plans for the Symbian Foundation were announced on June 24, 2008 by
the initial board members; AT&T, LG Electronics, Motorola, Nokia, NTT
DOCOMO, Samsung Electronics, Sony Ericsson, STMicroelectronics, Texas
Instruments and Vodafone, together with Symbian Limited. An
additional 11 organizations supported the announcement on that day;
today 9 further companies are confirming their endorsement of plans
for the Symbian Foundation, including mobile operators 3, América
Móvil and TIM, semiconductor manufacturer Marvell plus services and
software providers Aplix, EB, EMCC Software, Sasken and TietoEnator.

"We were delighted with the broad support for plans for the Symbian
Foundation", said Kai Öistämö, Executive Vice President, Devices at
Nokia, on behalf of the initial board members. "We believe that this
is a significant move for our industry and are pleased that these
additional market leaders agree and are giving their support to the
initiative."

"3 is pleased to support the Symbian Foundation and believe this is a
significant development in open mobile software platforms", said
Frank Meehan, Director and General Manager, 3 Handset Group. "3 has
established a leading position in mobile internet with the highly
acclaimed x-series suite of services, which has now evolved into an
even more open approach to the internet on mobile devices.  We
believe that this initiative will provide an excellent opportunity to
expand the range and quality of services for our customers."

"América Móvil applauds plans for the Symbian Foundation", said
Daniel Hajj, CEO of América Móvil.  "By offering an open mobile
software platform, the Symbian Foundation will drive innovation which
will ultimately benefit consumers as well as the mobile industry.
This innovation will allow América Móvil to deliver more exciting and
compelling experiences for our customers."

"Aplix is excited about the plans for the Symbian Foundation", said
Ryu Koriyama, Chairman & CEO of Aplix Corporation.  "We intend to
join the foundation and are committed to bring our extensive mobile &
embedded experience to the Symbian Foundation, enabling faster time
to market for device manufacturers using the Symbian Foundation
platform with our Java solutions."

"EB is very excited about plans for the Symbian Foundation and the
intent to make the platform even more open", said Pertti Korhonen,
CEO at EB, Elektrobit Corporation. "We believe that this will benefit
consumers as well as the whole mobile industry. The open platform
will mean more players and products in the market. This in turn will
increase the need for innovation partners and experienced solution
providers such as EB."

"EMCC Software welcomes plans for the Symbian Foundation and the move
to a royalty-free and ultimately open source platform. This bold move
has the potential to transform the whole industry", said Leigh
Edwards, CEO of EMCC Software.  "This radical move will generate many
new products based on the Symbian Foundation platform, attracting new
companies as well as driving change for the established players. As a
leading Symbian OS, UIQ and S60 Competence Center, with ten years
experience, EMCC is ideally qualified to advise and assist companies
in the ecosystem with this transformation."

"As a longtime proponent of open source ecosystems, Marvell will be
pleased to join the Symbian Foundation", said David Young, Vice
President and General Manager, Mobile Cellular Business Group at
Marvell.  "We plan to extend and leverage our significant experience
in developing open source systems and work together with other
industry leaders in the mobile ecosystem to build the foundation
platform. Marvell brings extensive experience in open source
technologies that will utilize the high-performance mobile
application processors, low-power highly integrated communication
processors and the open architecture of Marvell's silicon."

"We welcome this initiative", said Edwin Moses, Senior Vice
President, Sasken. "Sasken already works with leading handset
manufacturers and semiconductor vendors, across different
implementations of the Symbian OS, providing IP and professional
services.  This gives us an intimate understanding of the benefits
the Symbian Foundation will offer. We believe it will empower
licensees of the Symbian Foundation platform to create more
compelling converged devices and better customer experiences, while
improving on economics and time to market. We are confident that this
initiative will bind the community and enable leading companies like
Sasken to serve their customers even better."

"Symbian OS is one of the icons of the mobile eco-system, with an
extremely successful track record", said Ari Vanhanen, Executive Vice
President and President of Telecom & Media at TietoEnator.
"Regarding the future, the plans for the Symbian Foundation are a
great step forward and I'm personally proud that we will be part of
this initiative."

"TIM has been pioneering the adoption of S60 on Symbian OS to deliver
exciting experiences to our customers in a consistent and
cost-effective way, across multiple devices, reinforcing TIM's
position as a leading innovator", said Leopoldo Tranquilli, VP
Handset and SIM Development, Value Added Services at TIM. "We're
happy to join this outstanding step in the evolution of Symbian OS
and we welcome the open and collaborative approach, which we are keen
to contribute to, based on our long-standing experience."

Since plans for the Symbian Foundation were announced, more than 150
organizations have registered their interest in joining via the
website at www.symbianfoundation.org.


As previously announced, the plans for the establishment of the
Symbian Foundation and royalty-free licensing of foundation software
are:

1) The acquisition of Symbian Limited by Nokia, expected to close in
Q4, 2008.
2) Software assets are contributed to the foundation, including
Symbian OS and S60 by Nokia, UIQ technology  by Motorola and Sony
Ericsson and MOAP(S) by NTT DOCOMO and Fujitsu.
3) This contributed software will be available under a royalty-free
license to foundation members from the first day of Symbian
Foundation operations, expected 1H 2009.
4) The Foundation will work to unify the platform, with the first
unified foundation release expected in 2009.
5) The foundation will work to make the platform available in open
source by June 2010 (two years from the Symbian Foundation
announcement)

Note to Editors:
Further information about the Symbian Foundation is available at
www.symbianfoundation.org.

Symbian and all Symbian based trademarks and logos are trademarks of
Symbian Software Limited.  The operation of the proposed Symbian
Foundation remains subject to regulatory approvals.  Until such
approvals are obtained, and the Symbian Foundation has become fully
operational, Symbian Software Limited retains exclusive
responsibility for all licensing and marketing activities related to
Symbian OS.

About the Symbian Foundation
On June 24, 2008, mobile industry leaders announced their intent to
create the Symbian Foundation, with membership open to all
organizations.  At the same time, Nokia announced its offer to
acquire Symbian Limited.  Following the close of that acquisition,
Nokia will contribute Symbian OS and S60 software to the Foundation.
Sony Ericsson and Motorola will contribute technology from UIQ and
DOCOMO and Fujitsu have indicated their willingness to contribute
MOAP(S) assets.

The contributed software will be available for all foundation members
under a royalty-free license, from the foundation's first day of
operations, expected to be during the first half of 2009, dependent
upon the close of the acquisition of Symbian Limited by Nokia,
expected in the fourth quarter of 2008.  From these contributions,
the foundation will then provide a unified platform with a single UI
framework.  The foundation will make selected components available as
open source at launch and then work to establish the most complete
mobile software offering available in open source.

The foundation's platform will build on Symbian OS, today's leading
open mobile software operating system with more than 200 million
mobile phones already shipped by multiple vendors across more than
250 major network operators and with tens of thousands of third-party
applications already available for these devices

The foundation software licensing model and governance has been
selected to secure transparency, encourage contribution and maintain
platform consistency. The foundation will promote collaboration,
contributions and active participation and will operate as a
meritocracy. Device manufacturers will be eligible for seats based on
number of Symbian Foundation platform-based devices shipped, with the
other board members selected by election and contribution. Only one
seat will be available per organization on the board of directors and
each of the councils.  An independent committee will oversee the
election process for the board of directors and for the councils.

Media Enquiries:

On behalf of the initial Symbian Foundation board members
Nokia Communications
[phone]
[e-mail]

Karen Hamblen or Katie Buckett
Symbian Media Relations
[phone]
[e-mail]


 
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