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Industry veteran to lead the foundation that will drive the future of
the leading open mobile platform for smartphones

London, United Kingdom - The ten initial board members of the Symbian
Foundation (AT&T, LG Electronics, Motorola, Nokia, NTT DOCOMO,
Samsung Electronics, Sony Ericsson, ST-NXP Wireless, Texas
Instruments and Vodafone) today announced the nomination of Lee
Williams as the Executive Director for the planned foundation.  Lee
is currently head of the S60 organization in Nokia's Devices
business.

"We are delighted to have such a strong and experienced leader to
head the Symbian Foundation" said Kris Rinne, senior vice president,
architecture and planning, AT&T on behalf of the initial board
members. "Lee Williams is well known in our industry and has been a
driving force in the establishment of the foundation.  Following an
extensive, independent selection process, we believe that he is the
best candidate to lead the foundation.  He will now work to ensure we
get the most complete and competitive Symbian Foundation platform
offering and setup the operations needed to drive the platform to its
next phase of evolution as quickly as possible."

"I feel honored to have been invited to serve in this role", said Lee
Williams. "This is a great opportunity to directly help deliver on
the promise of the foundation, working with the stakeholders and
prospective members who are so committed to make this initiative a
success. To me, there can be no more exciting role in the mobile
software world than to lead the Symbian Foundation."

52 companies have now announced their support for the planned Symbian
Foundation, including 8 device manufacturers, 7 semiconductor
companies, 9 mobile network operators, 27 services and software
companies and 1 financial services provider.  More details are
available at www.symbianfoundation.org, where hundreds of other
organizations have registered their interest in learning more about
the Symbian Foundation, since plans were announced in June 2008.

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, subject to regulatory approvals and customary closing
conditions.
2. Software assets are contributed to the foundation, including
Symbian OS(TM) 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)

Lee Williams will remain in his current role as head of the S60
organization in Nokia's Devices business until January 1, 2009, or
until such time as the foundation and its leadership team are in
place and operational. The operation of the foundation remains
subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory
approvals.

Notes for 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.

Media Enquiries:

On behalf of the initial Symbian Foundation board members:

Mark Siegel
Executive Director, Media and Industry Analyst Relations
AT&T Mobility
Tel. [phone] (office)
Tel. [phone] (wireless)

For Nokia:

Nokia
Communications
Tel. [phone]
Email: [e-mail]

For Symbian Limited:

Karen Hamblen
Symbian Media Relations
Tel. [phone]
Email: [e-mail]


 
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