Symbian announces new global test certification houses for Symbian Signed
Symbian Signed brings lower pricing and global support to application signing for developersSymbian Expo, London, UK - 5 October 2004 Symbian Signed offers flexible signing options to support the different needs of the Symbian OS ecosystem. One of these options is to become a certification test house which is suitable for ISVs with a small number of applications for certification. Applications are submitted to the Symbian Signed portal and tested by an independent third party test house such as MphasiS and NTSL. With two new test houses, Symbian OS developers will benefit from significantly reduced rates. MphasiS will offer testing for €195 and NSTL for €250, providing cost reductions of up to 75 % compared to when Symbian Signed was first launched in May.
Symbian Signed approved test houses follow the same application testing criteria defined in cooperation with network operator and mobile manufacturer. Symbian Signed is designed to satisfy mobile developers needs and ensure a thriving, open market for trusted mobile applications by providing a single, cost effective, accessible, unified certification program. The program also delivers developer authentication and anti-tamper security for Symbian OS applications. About Symbian Ltd Symbian is a software licensing company that develops and licenses Symbian OS, the global open industry standard operating system for advanced, data-enabled mobile phones. Symbian licenses Symbian OS to the worlds leading handset manufacturers. The following Symbian OS licensees have Symbian OS-based mobile phones in production and development: Arima, BenQ, Fujitsu for NTT DoCoMo FOMA, LG, Lenovo, Motorola, Nokia, Panasonic, Sendo, Siemens, Samsung and Sony Ericsson. In 2003, over 6.67 million Symbian OS-based mobile phones were sold worldwide and more than 15 million have been sold to date. Symbian has its headquarters in London, United Kingdom with offices in the United States, Europe and Asia (Bangalore, Beijing, Seoul and Tokyo). | |||||