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October 17, 2006
'We are happy to demonstrate a prototype at the Symbian Smartphoneshow in London.' says Arto Pietilä, Excecutive Vice President of Elektrobit. 'Our reference phone will accelerate the time-to-market of new S60 phones and will give good possibilities to grow the S60 community. We have already signed our first Memorandum of Understanding for a full delivery of a smartphone via our ODPM business model, which shows that there is confidence in our development.'
The reference phone, a trendy clamshell less than 90cc, is a mid tier product with attractive BOM. The form factor phone enables reduced R&D time, includes various operator requirements and gives flexibility to customization. For each OEM product there will be a state of the art industrial design with optional modifications to mechanical design, HW and SW features as well as customizations to S60 user interface.
The set of features listed below is implemented in the reference phone. The features can be modified depending on customer requirements:
Oulunsalo, October 17, 2006
Elektrobit
Arto Pietilä
Excecutive Vice President
Elektrobit Mobile Terminal Solutions
Further Information:
Vesa Kiviranta
Director Terminal Products
Tel. +358 40 344 2186
vesa.kiviranta@elektrobit.com
Distribution: Principal media
Elektrobit Design Services
Elektrobit works as a product development partner with companies that use wireless technologies and need high-tech products, solutions and outsourcing services. The company offers complete hardware and software products and design services for all aspects of mobile terminal solutions. As an S60 Boutique and Symbian Independent Design House, Elektrobit offers full turnkey 3G products for OEMs via Partnered ODM.
About Elektrobit
Elektrobit's goal is to become a world leading embedded software and hardware company in selected wireless and automotive environments. The businesses are arranged under three business segments. The Wireless Communications Solutions segment encompasses the Mobile Terminal Solutions and the Radio Network Solutions business units providing R&D services, 3G smart phone reference design products and IP radio base station modules to telecommunications vendors. The Automotive Software segment encompasses the Automotive Software business unit providing in-car software products and R&D services for the automotive industry. The Test and Automation segment consists of the Network Test, the System Test and the Production Solutions business units providing testing, material handling and process automation tools and equipment for the electronics industry and teleoperators.
Elektrobit employs some 1,900 professionals in 15 countries. The Group's net sales for the year 2005 totalled eur 212.5 million. Elektrobit Group Plc. is listed on the Helsinki Stock Exchange.
October 17, 2006
Print this releaseElektrobit 3G Reference Phone Development Proceeding As Planned
Elektrobit (OMX: EBGV1) announced today that the development of the 3G S60 on Symbian reference smartphone is proceeding as planned. Elektrobit demonstrates a prototype at the Symbian Smartphoneshow. The company announced earlier this year at the 3GSM in Barcelona the development of the 3G reference phone together with Freescale Semiconductor (NYSE:FSL, FSL.B).'We are happy to demonstrate a prototype at the Symbian Smartphoneshow in London.' says Arto Pietilä, Excecutive Vice President of Elektrobit. 'Our reference phone will accelerate the time-to-market of new S60 phones and will give good possibilities to grow the S60 community. We have already signed our first Memorandum of Understanding for a full delivery of a smartphone via our ODPM business model, which shows that there is confidence in our development.'
The reference phone, a trendy clamshell less than 90cc, is a mid tier product with attractive BOM. The form factor phone enables reduced R&D time, includes various operator requirements and gives flexibility to customization. For each OEM product there will be a state of the art industrial design with optional modifications to mechanical design, HW and SW features as well as customizations to S60 user interface.
The set of features listed below is implemented in the reference phone. The features can be modified depending on customer requirements:
- HW platform: Freescale MXC300-30 – single core cellular platform
- SW platform: Symbian OS 9.2 & S60 Third edition with feature pack 1
- Radio: 900/1800/1900 MHz GSM/EDGE, 2100MHz WCDMA, optional band variants available later
- Physical size: <90cc, thickness 17,5mm
- Display: QVGA 262k (primary), 128x160 256k (secondary)
- Memories: Supports multiple memory configurations, 128MB NAND, 64MB SDRAM implemented
- Camera: Supports up to 5 Mpix (primary), 2 Mpix (primary), VGA (secondary) implemented
Oulunsalo, October 17, 2006
Elektrobit
Arto Pietilä
Excecutive Vice President
Elektrobit Mobile Terminal Solutions
Further Information:
Vesa Kiviranta
Director Terminal Products
Tel. +358 40 344 2186
vesa.kiviranta@elektrobit.com
Distribution: Principal media
Elektrobit Design Services
Elektrobit works as a product development partner with companies that use wireless technologies and need high-tech products, solutions and outsourcing services. The company offers complete hardware and software products and design services for all aspects of mobile terminal solutions. As an S60 Boutique and Symbian Independent Design House, Elektrobit offers full turnkey 3G products for OEMs via Partnered ODM.
About Elektrobit
Elektrobit's goal is to become a world leading embedded software and hardware company in selected wireless and automotive environments. The businesses are arranged under three business segments. The Wireless Communications Solutions segment encompasses the Mobile Terminal Solutions and the Radio Network Solutions business units providing R&D services, 3G smart phone reference design products and IP radio base station modules to telecommunications vendors. The Automotive Software segment encompasses the Automotive Software business unit providing in-car software products and R&D services for the automotive industry. The Test and Automation segment consists of the Network Test, the System Test and the Production Solutions business units providing testing, material handling and process automation tools and equipment for the electronics industry and teleoperators.
Elektrobit employs some 1,900 professionals in 15 countries. The Group's net sales for the year 2005 totalled eur 212.5 million. Elektrobit Group Plc. is listed on the Helsinki Stock Exchange.