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<concept id="GUID-6F1ED7D0-5F41-4587-89AA-8DDE7AEC916F" xml:lang="en"><title>What's

new in Symbian^3</title>

<shortdesc>Symbian^3 introduces a lot of new features that enhance communication,

connectivity, multimedia, graphics, security and the overall usability of

Symbian devices. These features benefit operators, application developers

and device creators by making it easier to create feature-rich devices and

applications.</shortdesc>

<prolog>

<metadata>

<keywords></keywords>

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</prolog>

<conbody>

<p>If you are moving from a older version of Symbian platform to Symbian^3,

see <xref href="GUID-BA0A115B-068C-4257-9489-DF35DF633AD2.dita">Porting applications

to Symbian^3</xref>.</p>

<table id="GUID-2FD9A877-1A75-4ADD-8B9A-B2FA4A9EB7C4-GENID-1-4-1-1-5-1-3-2">

<tgroup cols="2"><colspec colname="col1" colwidth="0.42*"/><colspec colname="col2"

colwidth="1.58*"/>

<thead>

<row>

<entry>Technology Domain</entry>

<entry>New Features</entry>

</row>

</thead>

<tbody>

<row>

<entry>Data Communications</entry>

<entry><ul>

<li><p><b>FreeWay or Three Plane Comms Architecture:</b> The Symbian platform

now supports a new IP networking architecture. The new architecture significantly

improves data flow performance and makes it easier for third-party developers

to integrate new technologies, for example firewalls and hotspot authenticators.

It also implements automatic roaming between different access points, for

example WLAN and GPRS. For more information, see <xref href="GUID-B7A40638-BA80-5175-B23D-2F3964C274A0.dita">Goals

of the Comms Architecture</xref>.</p></li>

<li><p><b>One-Click Connectivity (OCC):</b> The Symbian platform now provides

a new way of managing data connections on the Symbian platform. OCC builds

on the existing Application Level Roaming (ALR) solution. This feature makes

the user's interaction with "connecting" and "select access point" dialogs

significantly simple and easier.</p> </li>

</ul></entry>

</row>

<row>

<entry>Device Connectivity</entry>

<entry><ul>

<li><p><b>USB On-The-Go (OTG):</b> The Symbian platform now supports the On-The-Go

(OTG) supplement to the USB 2.0 Specification, Revision 1.3. This enables

support for USB mass storage and audio devices on a Symbian device.</p></li>

<li><p><b>MTP Improvements:</b> The Symbian MTP implementation now supports

Windows 7, MTP over Bluetooth, Ethernet RNDIS and also new content formats.</p></li>

<li><p><b>AVRCP (Audio/Video Remote Control Profile) v1.4 Support:</b> A Symbian

device user can now see music track names and browse playlists directly from

the screen of a AVRCP v1.4 enabled Bluetooth headset or remote control.</p></li>

<li><p><b>Centralized AT-command Handling:</b> The Symbian platform now enables

all AT commands to be handled using the same mechanism regardless of the connection

type. For more information, refer to the <b>AT Extension Plug-in API</b>.</p></li>

</ul></entry>

</row>

<row>

<entry>Device Management</entry>

<entry><ul>

<li><p><b>Support for Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) Management Objects (MO):</b> The

Symbian platform now supports OMA MO like Software Component Management Object

(SCOMO) v1.0, Device Capability Management Object (DCMO) v1.0 and Connectivity

Management Object (ConnMO). It also supports Nokia Standard Streaming MO.

Some enhancements have been made to Browser MO and Email MO.</p></li>

<li><p><b>Other Device Management Enhancements:</b> The Symbian platform now

provides an improved device Lock with security and an enhanced firmware update

installation experience.</p></li>

</ul></entry>

</row>

<row>

<entry>Location</entry>

<entry align="justify"><ul>

<li><p><b>Landmark-based URL Parser:</b> The Symbian platform now supports

a parser that converts between landmark objects and URLs. The parser supports

a URL format that is compliant with Ovi Maps. For more information, see <xref

href="GUID-5809B26D-9AF9-394A-8FA6-6BB199DC6342.dita"><apiname>CPosLandmarkParser</apiname></xref>.</p></li>

<li><p><b>New Management Object (MO) for A-GPS:</b>  The Symbian platform

now provides an enhancement to Secure User Plane Location (SUPL) now allows

the service provider to provide two access points for a SUPL server in the

MO. This improves the system stability because it acts as a fallback mechanism

in case one of the access points is unavailable.</p></li>

<li><p><b>Support for Application Processor Engine (APE) Centric Location

Architecture:</b> Symbian devices can now use the new architecture based on

the APE that offers standardized session IDs on network privacy and classes

that use the SUPL. The architecture converges technology from OS, middleware

and application software layers.</p></li>

<li><p><b>Support for Location Based Services (LBS) SUPL Positioning Module

(PSY):</b> The Symbian platform now enables the LBS SUPL PSY to allow GPS-enabled

devices to handle network-based SUPL location requests. This includes Cell

ID based positioning and assistance data exchange as part of SUPL v2.0. For

more information, see <xref href="GUID-816334A7-488B-5F91-8C2E-47076D875013.dita">SUPL

Protocol Module</xref>.</p></li>

<li><p><b>Support for GPSCost5.0D and GPSCost4.0D GPS chipsets:</b> The Symbian

platform now uses the APE-centric architecture to support GPSCost5.0D and

GPSCost4.0D chipsets. A new A-GPS Nokia Positioning Engine (NPE) integration

module replaces the OS LBS subsystem reference A-GPS version.</p></li>

<li><p><b>Support for LBS SUPL Radio Resource LCS Protocol (RRLP):</b> The

Symbian platform now uses the APE-centric architecture to support NPE and

RRLP on GPS-enabled device.</p></li>

<li><p><b>SUPL 2.0 Trigger Support:</b> The Symbian platform now provides

SUPL 2.0 trigger support that allows the requester to receive location updates

periodically, which is both network and device initiated.</p></li>

<li><p><b>Location-based Triggering Enhancements:</b> The Symbian platform

now includes key enhancements that enable integration with an Context framework

to develop plug-ins and increase support for total and active triggers. An

enhanced, dedicated common gateway interface enables the client to provide

multiple CGIs to create a trigger, which is fired on successful matching with

at least one CGI.</p></li>

<li><p>Enhanced Location Acquisition API to support <codeph>LocationKnownPositionArea</codeph>.</p></li>

<li><p><b>Here and Now:</b> The Symbian platform now includes Here and now

that offers easy-to-use Web services related to the user's current location.

Here and now allows the user to check the local weather and get other topical

information while on the move.</p></li>

</ul></entry>

</row>

<row>

<entry>Multimedia</entry>

<entry><ul>

<li><p><b>Mobile TV DVB-H Receiver HAI:</b> Mobile TV Receiver is a small

internal system but does so much more than traditional TV. It is broadcasted

in a multi-grounded environment with high speed by using low battery power

and low memory usage. For more information, see <xref href="GUID-893BFF74-5DBB-5606-96FC-F961A52CA90D.dita">Mobile

TV DVBH Receiver HAI Component</xref>.</p></li>

<li><p><b>OpenMAX IL:</b> OpenMAX IL is a low-level interface used in mobile

devices that allows the Multimedia Device Framework (MDF) to load, control,

connect and unload audio, video and imaging components. For more information,

see <xref href="GUID-E5900ED5-C49E-52B2-AE6D-CC0DB1F234A1.dita">OpenMAX IL

Collection</xref>.</p></li>

<li><p><b>Thin Adaptation of A3F DevSound:</b> The A3F DevSound is one of

the key component in the Sound Device collection that provides access to the

hardware accelerator in audio technology. For more information, see <xref

href="GUID-170A1D9C-12CB-502A-BCB3-9E2AEBB207FA.dita">A3F DevSound Component</xref>.</p></li>

<li><p><b>Image Processor library:</b> The Image Processor is an independent

and high-level API and framework which is developed for mobile imaging. The

Image Processor has some pluggable advanced image editing libraries to perform

the Panoramic Stitching function and the Speed View function. For more information,

see <xref href="GUID-042868E6-88BF-5797-BB53-8E34283DCF16.dita">Image Processor

Library</xref>.</p></li>

<li><p><b>Camera API Extensions:</b> The Camera API is extended to support

the features such as background processing, continuous digital zooming, time

nudge image capturing and automatic aperture setting. For more information,

see <xref href="GUID-BDB622BF-1CFA-5F1C-81FB-5579C8599689.dita">Camera Library</xref>.</p></li>

<li><p><b>Camera Support for Video Encoding:</b> The Camera supports mobile

device to capture video frames which are encoded in the H264 format. For more

information, see <xref href="GUID-D038D77F-A6B8-5A18-8978-4981AE8D0F35.dita">Using

the Encoded H264 Video Frames to Capture Video</xref>.</p></li>

<li><p><b>3GP File Format Library:</b> The 3GP Library component is a Multimedia

plug-in which supports for reading and writing 3GP, 3G2, and MP4 files. The

3GP Library is also extended to support larger 3GP or MP4 files. For more

information, see <xref href="GUID-8DD3B2E3-636A-5FE6-B081-FDB57260E6D8.dita">3GP

Library Component</xref>.</p></li>

<li><p><b>Video Playback from Non-user Interface Thread:</b> Media Client

Video Display is a standalone library used by the Video Client library to

support video playback. For more information, see <xref href="GUID-17273087-B962-5E8A-8715-055C8BF34A5D.dita">Media

Client Video Display Library</xref>.</p></li>

<li><p><b>Video Subtitle CRP:</b> Displays artwork on a video window using

the Video Subtitle CRP component. The Subtitle Graphic library displays subtitles

artwork on the screen through its interaction with Client Process, Controller

Process and WServ Process. For more information, see <xref href="GUID-412CB101-A92C-54E1-9518-79E94DD40A08.dita">Video

Subtitle CRP Component</xref>.</p></li>

<li><p><b>True Pause in Audio Playback:</b> In the audio playback request

the true pause feature is implemented to stop the audio data at the physical

sound device without stopping the buffer traffic. For more information, see <xref

href="GUID-609A4E83-F074-5A5D-A0DF-A95A7CDC8D2C.dita">Pausing and Resuming

Audio Play</xref>. </p></li>

<li><p><b>Global Surface Updates:</b> The Video Render component is extended

to support the global surface updates. For more information, see <xref href="GUID-E56EB25C-9B94-5486-9492-5151FDF79B6C.dita">Global

Surface Updates</xref>.</p></li>

<li><p><b>Metadata Utility Library:</b> The Metadata Utility library belongs

to the Metadata Utility Framework (MUF) component that provides fast metadata

access to audio, video and image media files.</p></li>

<li><p><b>UI Patterns or Thumbnails Enhancement:</b> This is a Multimedia

specific pattern enhancement, which includes many UI (User Interface) features,

listed below:</p><ul>

<li><p>Multiple customized Home Screens with 6 different widget enabled screens. </p></li>

<li><p>Pinch zoom, kinetic scrolling and single-click features.</p></li>

<li><p>Good screen view with a new UI theme, and renewed icons.</p></li>

<li><p>Hardware acceleration with fast and responsive UI that creates new

transition effects.</p></li>

<li><p>Multitasking with Teleport visual task swapper.</p></li>

<li><p>Intelligent slide functionality for Hybrid touch and QWERTY slider

devices. Video Graphics Array (VGA) Touch supports for VGA QWERTY mono blocks.</p></li>

<li><p>VGA Touch helps to control Music player.</p></li>

</ul></li>

<li><p><b>Mobile TV:</b> Mobile TV uses DVB-H receiver to consume broadcast

digital mobile television. The Symbian platform provides fast and easy access

to all videos and TV media content. One key press opens videos and TV application

suite, and user scrolls and selects the desired video functionality. This

media experience is built with major components such as Videos and TV, video

player and Mobile TV. Videos and TV support high quality video up to 720 per

resolution at 12 Mbps and 30 frames per second.</p></li>

<li><p><b>Image Viewer Application:</b> The Image Viewer application is used

when the client opens an image file for viewing. File Manager, Messaging,

Camcorder and Browser S60 components use the Image Viewer application. It

supports Extended ICL JPEG API, which enables a faster and less memory-consuming

way to rotate and zoom images.</p></li>

<li><p> <b>FM Radio:</b> The FM Radio application is used to listen FM radio

broadcast over the air. FM radio broadcast is a free service. </p></li>

<li><p><b>Video Sharing:</b> Using the video sharing service, both call users

can start sharing their device live camera view or pre-recorded video clip

during a normal circuit switched (CS) voice call. The video sharing feature

allows the user to upgrade and downgrade their call with one-way video at

times of need. The video sharing application uses the Multimedia Comms Engine

API. </p></li>

</ul></entry>

</row>

<row>

<entry>Multimedia Applications</entry>

<entry><ul>

<li><p><b>High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI):</b> The Symbian platform

now supports HDMI technology. HDMI is supported as an external accessory for

audio and video playback for a great television playback experience. It provides

improved data performance and is ideal for streaming high definition audio

and video. The 720p resolution is supported in still image and video viewing.

5+1 channel audio is also supported.</p></li>

<li><p><b>Home Music Widgets:</b> The Symbian platform now provides music

information through Home Screen Music Widgets. The Home Music Widgets controls

from the Home Screen menu system enables to play and pause the playing track.

The Music Widget supports the Radio Player and includes the Music Suite Matrix

Menu. This menu is configured through XML and by default supports to launch

the functionality listed below:</p><ul>

<li><p>The last played song</p></li>

<li><p>The music collection view</p></li>

<li><p>A music shop, or to open the FM radio</p></li>

</ul></li>

<li><p><b>Fusion<?Pub Caret?> Player Application:</b> The Symbian platform

now introduces the Fusion Player, which replaces the existing Media Player

and Video Center applications. It enables access to both online video services

and locally stored videos. If DVB-H device is available, live TV viewing is

also possible. The main features supported by the Fusion player application

are as follows:</p><ul>

<li><p>To browse stored videos and to see metadata features of the video,

such as title, thumbnail DRM info, size or play-time.</p></li>

<li><p>To check videos that are pre-installed with the device.</p></li>

<li><p>To play stored video file in the device.</p></li>

</ul></li>

</ul></entry>

</row>

<row>

<entry>OS Base Services </entry>

<entry><ul>

<li><p><b>Writable Data Paging (WDP):</b> The Symbian platform now supports

WDP. This enables efficient use of memory and allows multiple applications

to run at the same time without physically adding more RAM to the hardware.

This leads to a more responsive system when switching between a number of

running applications. For more information, see <xref href="GUID-2B7D04D9-98DE-5284-836D-01DB4FA8949D.dita">Writable

Data Paging</xref>.</p></li>

<li><p><b>Symmetric multiprocessor (SMP):</b> The Symbian platform now supports

SMP for multi-core processors, such as the ARM Cortex A9. This allows device

integrators to prototype and prove ARM-based SMP platforms. For more information,

see <xref href="GUID-CE72E71B-6ED3-4961-B4C5-C43D823ACA9D.dita">SMP</xref>.</p> </li>

<li><p><b>64-bit file server:</b> The Symbian platform now supports files

larger than 2 GB. For more information, see <xref href="GUID-C473F6B1-35E7-5A1E-B451-4EBD7064CCDC.dita">Large

File Access</xref>.</p></li>

</ul></entry>

</row>

<row>

<entry>Productivity</entry>

<entry><ul>

<li><p><b>Enhanced Calendar UI Architecture:</b> Calendar UI architecture

has changed to improve flexibility of calendar for regional, religious, custom-tailors

and xSP calendar service needs. Multiple storages are also supported. For

more information, see <xref href="GUID-00631ED2-1B7F-5FC4-9E81-4B6DF7946631.dita">Calendar

Guide</xref>.</p></li>

<li><p><b>CalDAV Protocol:</b> Calendar application now supports the CalDAV

Protocol, which is an open calendar synchronization standard contributed by

SUN Microsystems. This enables a user to access scheduling information on

remote servers.</p></li>

<li><p><b>Enhanced Contacts Application:</b> The Contacts application in this

release includes the following changes:</p><ul>

<li><p>Integration with social media.</p></li>

<li><p>Support for Remote Contacts Lookup, for example, from post-installed

Mail for Exchange account.</p></li>

<li><p>Virtual Phonebook API (supports getting access to the user’s own contact

card).</p></li>

<li><p>Own contact card.</p></li>

</ul></li>

</ul></entry>

</row>

<row>

<entry>Runtimes </entry>

<entry><ul>

<li><p>The Symbian platform now supports the Open Source based Java MIDP 2.1.</p></li>

<li><p>The Symbian platform now supports Browser Application v7.2 (with Web

Run Time 7.2) that includes the following features:</p><ul>

<li><p>Browser Control</p></li>

<li><p>Browser core features</p></li>

<li><p>Browser Customization</p></li>

<li><p>Browser plug-ins</p></li>

<li><p>Browser with touch screen</p></li>

<li><p>Content Download</p></li>

<li><p>URI Schemes</p></li>

<li><p>Display Resolution Optimizations</p></li>

<li><p>Optical Finger Navigation (OFN)</p></li>

<li><p>FlashLite 3.1</p></li>

<li><p>Search Client Integration</p></li>

<li><p>Expanding Language and Character Set Support</p></li>

<li><p>Improved Security Prompting</p></li>

<li><p>Updated Platform Service APIs</p></li>

<li><p>Visual Task Swapper Support</p></li>

<li><p>Performance Optimizations</p></li>

<li><p>Multi-touch/pinch zooming</p></li>

</ul></li>

</ul></entry>

</row>

<row>

<entry>Security</entry>

<entry>The Symbian platform now provides an enhanced Security subsystem that

enables device creators to integrate hardware acceleration modules, which

improves the performance of cryptographic algorithms. This is particularly

valuable in intensive real-time use-cases, such as streaming audio or video

over a secure link, where bulk data needs to be encrypted and decrypted.</entry>

</row>

<row>

<entry>User Interface</entry>

<entry><ul>

<li><p><b>ScreenPlay, also known as the New Graphics Architecture (NGA):</b> This

new graphics architecture enables device creators to take advantage of improved

software performance, hardware acceleration and third party graphics engines.

It makes it possible to combine UI components, graphics and video to create

highly innovative UIs. For more information, see <xref href="GUID-D93978BE-11A3-5CE3-B110-1DEAA5AD566C.dita">The

ScreenPlay Graphics Architecture</xref>.</p></li>

<li><p><b>Extended Bitmaps:</b> The Font and Bitmap Server provides a framework

for device creators to add support for their own types of bitmap compression.

Bitmaps that use compression formats that are provided by device creators

are known as extended bitmaps. For more information, see <xref href="GUID-D76C7759-739D-5C98-B718-7297687FE630.dita">Extended

Bitmaps</xref>.</p></li>

<li><p><b>Dynamic Direct Screen Access (DSA) Allocation:</b> The Symbian platform

now supports the dynamic allocation of the DSA buffer. For more information,

see <xref href="GUID-8DF46A11-874A-52E5-9298-C083EA633BA0.dita">Implementing

Dynamic DSA Allocation</xref>.</p></li>

<li><p><b>Multi-Touch Support:</b> The ScreenPlay version of the Window Server

has been extended to support multiple advanced pointers, with support for

proximity and pressure. The emulator now also supports multiple advanced pointers.

For more information, see <xref href="GUID-A12A66ED-2C8F-5CE6-8F3E-332B045A35B4.dita">Advanced

Pointers</xref>.</p></li>

<li><p><b>Enhanced Touch UI:</b> The touch UI includes the following improvements:</p><ul>

<li><p>Multi-page Home Screen enables the user to navigate between widgets

with a simple flick gesture</p></li>

<li><p>Capacitive multi-touch events are supported.</p></li>

<li><p>Tactile Feedback utilizes advanced haptics effects.</p></li>

</ul></li>

</ul><p>For more information about the new features in Graphics, see <xref

href="GUID-D0C84E1D-A625-4F79-8515-399B8153727B.dita">What's New in Graphics

in Symbian^3</xref>.</p></entry>

</row>

</tbody>

</tgroup>

</table></conbody>

<related-links>

<linklist>

<link href="GUID-AB69D251-7635-4325-BBCE-92F7AFC86DC2.dita"><linktext>New

C++ APIs in Symbian^3</linktext></link>

<link href="GUID-BA0A115B-068C-4257-9489-DF35DF633AD2.dita"><linktext>Porting

applications to Symbian^3</linktext></link>

<link href="GUID-13987218-9427-455E-AC77-ADE6B0E9CD7E.dita"><linktext>Introduction

to Symbian^3</linktext></link>

</linklist>

</related-links>

</concept>

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