Last month Symbian announced support for mass data handling with Symbian SQL and an advanced architecture for Location Based Services. Symbian SQL and the new LBS architecture will help Symbian licensees develop handsets that handle very large amounts of data, and which provide users with relevant information based on their current location, in tune with consumer demand..
Mobile phones featuring Symbian’s LBS offering were recently launched in Japan. In Europe, Symbian’s LBS architecture will appear in mobile phones later this year. Symbian SQL will be featured in phones shipping in the second half of 2008 and be available to application developers via a download in Q2 2008.
SQLite, an established open source technology widely used in products such as Mozilla’s Firefox, has been implemented by Symbian to create Symbian SQL, a robust and highly scalable database management system for Symbian OS. Symbian SQL makes retrieving and sorting terabytes of data and multimedia fast and efficient without compromising performance. Application developers can also take advantage of Symbian SQL by using a standard query language when working with databases on Symbian OS, helping to reduce maintenance costs and application footprints.
Symbian’s LBS architecture offers the most extensive LBS-rich solution of any OS, supporting multiple positioning technologies including A-GPS, network-based and Wi-FI to provide fast and accurate location information. Developers can cost-effectively target their LBS applications across multiple Symbian OS platforms, including S60, UIQ and MOAP, due to the consistent set of APIs offered by Symbian’s LBS architecture. The architecture enables:
- Tracking by emergency services (as mandated by government legislation in some regions
- Providing the quickest route - getting from A to B as quickly as possible
- Accurate pin-pointing of current location
- Geotagging images and videos – location stamping images and videos
- Finding the location of people in a contacts list
- Locating the nearest services
- Providing proximity alerts when near a specific location
These new technologies build on the recent launches of FreeWay (Symbian’s next generation communications architecture), ScreenPlay (Symbian’s graphics architecture) and SMP (Symmetric multiprocessing which delivers performance on demand).
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