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China Mobile and the Symbian Foundation

have teamed up to promote the carrier’s next-generation mobile standard and its application download store for handsets The deal comes as the Symbian Foundation steps up promotion of its mobile platform in China and as China Mobile works to build its mobile application store, which launched last month with support for smartphones from companies including Dell.

what in Deal?

Under the deal, China Mobile will support Symbian Horizon, a program that lets Symbian developers submit applications to multiple application stores at once, the two organizations said in a statement. That could speed growth for the number of applications in the China Mobile store, which now stands below 2,000. The deal also grants faster Symbian Signed certification for applications submitted to the China Mobile store, which offers downloads for multiple operating systems.
The Symbian Foundation is promoting its OS in China as rival platforms like the iPhone and Android steal ground from Symbian. Symbian remains the world’s top mobile OS, but largely because it is used by Nokia. The Symbian Foundation recently launched a Chinese version of its Web site and plans to set up a Beijing office, it said.The Symbian Foundation is promoting its OS in China as rival platforms like the iPhone and Android steal ground from Symbian. Symbian remains the world’s top mobile OS, but largely because it is used by Nokia. The Symbian Foundation recently launched a Chinese version of its Web site and plans to set up a Beijing office, it said.

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