Elektrobit 3G reference development proceeding as planned

October 17, 2006

Elektrobit announced 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.

"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