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New SDK release coincides with Nokia 6260 slide device launch,
provides support for
Java (TM) Location API, WebKit Open Source Browser and Adobe Flash
Lite 3.0

Espoo, Finland - Nokia today released the new software development
kit (SDK) for its Series 40 6th Edition mass-market mobile devices,
providing application developers and network operators with new tools
to create unique applications and services for the high-volume
feature phone market worldwide.

Today's release of the Series 40 6th Edition SDK, available for
immediate download at www.forum.nokia.com/tools, coincides with
Nokia's announcement of the new Nokia 6260 slide, the latest device
based on the Series 40 6th Edition platform, which achieves
significant breakthroughs in advanced capabilities and enhanced
functionality for mobile subscribers worldwide. In June, Nokia
announced the first mobile device based on Series 40 6th Edition, the
Nokia 7510 Supernova, which will ship to markets worldwide in Q4.

Series 40 6th Edition supports the Nokia WebKit Open Source Browser
for full web look and feel, Adobe Flash Lite 3.0 for accelerated
development and delivery of rich graphical mobile content, and the
Java(TM)-based location API (JSR-179) for navigation and
location-aware services. The Series 40 6th Edition SDK provides the
application development, testing and debugging tools to bring these
exciting technologies to devices for the mass consumer market
worldwide.

"Nokia is very pleased to release our Series 40 6th Edition SDK,
enabling developers to create a broad range of exciting new software
and services focused on the dynamic mobile consumer market
worldwide," said Tom Libretto, vice president, Forum Nokia, Nokia's
global developer support program. "This latest SDK helps third-party
developers to build richer multimedia applications and deliver
advanced mobile services to the broad base of mobile subscribers
served by Nokia Series 40 high-volume devices around the world."

"The advanced capabilities of these new Series 40 6th Edition devices
will enable service providers to deliver the latest applications and
content available to the broadest possible mobile subscriber base,"
said Aage Snorgaard, vice president, Series 40 Software, Nokia.
"Mobile application developers will find operators are increasingly
eager to include their cutting-edge software and service offerings on
Nokia high-volume Series 40 devices in markets worldwide."

Series 40 6th Edition support for the Nokia WebKit Open Source
Browser, previously available on the S60 smartphone platform, lets
mobile content and service providers target Series 40 feature phones
with full web look and feel.  Webkit Browser features include the
popular Pointer user interface, Incremental Page Rendering, Page
Overview and Visual History browsing, and the user-favorite Minimap
browsing that allows for easy screen navigation of full-size web
pages.

Series 40 6th Edition supports the interoperable Adobe Flash Lite 3.0
platform, enabling rich graphical mobile content that is further
enhanced by an expanded main screen UI resolution that facilitates
additional opportunities for development and delivery of
industry-leading software and services. The Series 40 6th Edition's
new HVGA Portrait 320x480 main screen UI resolution brings devices
like the Nokia 6260 slide unprecedented access to streaming video,
image rendering, mobile 3D graphics and scalable 2D Vector graphics.

The Series 40 6th Edition now includes location API (JSR-179),
allowing developers to write exciting location-aware applications
that can deliver new navigation and context-based services for the
consumer mass market.

The Series 40 6th Edition SDK provides Java class libraries, APIs
(including the Nokia UI API), relevant documentation and a device
emulator for testing Java, Flash Lite and browser content.

Forming an important element of Nokia's platform strategy for
supporting mobile application development across all consumer
segments and in all markets, Series 40 6th Edition shows Nokia's
commitment to offer the latest in mobile technologies and application
development across all of its developer platforms and multiple
handsets. Nokia's device platform approach maximizes developers'
volume opportunities and minimizes the need to port applications and
services to individual handsets. Developers can build core
functionality on top of the platform technologies and then optimize
their applications for user interfaces and technology extensions on
specific target devices.

About Forum Nokia
Nokia's global developer program, Forum Nokia connects developers to
tools, technical information, support, and distribution channels they
can use to build and market applications around the globe. From
offices in the U.S., Europe, Japan, China, India and Singapore, Forum
Nokia provides technical and business development support to
developers and operators to assist them in achieving their goal of
successfully launching applications and services to consumers and
enterprises. More information is available at www.forum.nokia.com.

About Nokia
Nokia is the world leader in mobility, driving the transformation and
growth of the converging Internet and communications industries. We
make a wide range of mobile devices with services and software that
enable people to experience music, navigation, video, television,
imaging, games, business mobility and more. Developing and growing
our offering of consumer Internet services, as well as our enterprise
solutions and software, is a key area of focus. We also provide
equipment, solutions and services for communications networks through
Nokia Siemens Networks.

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