Introduction

• The S^2 kit release
• The S^2 Hardening progress.
• The Symbian^2 Proposed API baseline
• The Symbian^2 feature list.

Spec Sheet

Data Communications

Multi-homed TCP/IP Connectivity

IP app protocols

• SIP Framework
• SDP (Session Description Protocol)
• Sigcomp (Signal Compression)
• SIP client resolver, SIP profile agent
• SIP plugins, SIP provider plugins
• RTP, SRTP

IP Connection management

• Automatic IP connection
• Contention management  
• IP connection monitoring   
• Always-on service for PDP contexts

Net Protocols

• HTTP 1.1 (as defined by RFC 2616)
• HTTP Transport Framework
• HTTP Protocol Handler Plug-in
• HTTP Transport Plug-in
• HTTP filters
• URI Permission Services
• Bookmark Support
• WAP Base
• Reference ftp and telnet client engines

Networking Services

• Transmission control protocol (TCP)
• User datagram protocol (UDP)
• Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4)
• Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)
• Point to point protocol (PPP)
• Ethernet network interface
• Dynamic host configuration protocol version 4 & 6 (DHCPv4 & DHCP v6)
• Domain Name systems (DNS)
• Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)
• Transport Layer Security (TLS)

VPN Client


• IKE version 1 (IETF RFC 2409)
• IKE version 2 (IETF RFC 4306)

WLAN

• Hotspot Framework
• 802.11 b/g/n
• 802.11e (partially)
• 802.11i
• WMM
• WPA/WPA2

Device Connectivity

Desktop Connectivity & PC Suite

DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) Services

• Home Media application
• Home Sync
• UPnP Framework

Printing

• PictBridge
• Bluetooth
• DPOF
• UPnP (WLAN)

Remote Connectivity

• MTP (media transport protocol) v1.0 ^[1]
• File Management
• PTP support
• Backup and Restore Engine

Remote Storage Framework

• Mapping of remote drives (Internal, External & Removable drives)
• WebDAV support
• SDP Plugin Framework

UPnP device architecture

• Extendable for mDNS/DNS-SD etc

Shortlink

• USB v2.0 High Speed Client
• Mass storage, ACM, WHCM
• Bluetooth v2.1
  • L2CAP, RFCOMM, SDP, GAP and SPP
  • OPP, FTP, AVCTP, PBAP, and PAN
  • Bluetooth stereo headset support (GAVDP and AVRCP)
• IrDA
• Serial Ports

Shortlink Services

• Obex over Bluetooth, USB and IrDA
• HID and DUN over Bluetooth

Device Management

Remote Management Application Daemons

• Over-the-air firmware upgrade (FOTA)
• OMA Client Provisioning v1.1
• OMA Data Synchronization v1.2
• OMA Device Management v1.2

Location

Location

• GPS, A-GPS (terminal-assisted / terminal- based) and network-based positioning
• Mobile originated and mobile terminated requests (including emergency requests)
• Network Adaptation plugins
• Data Source modules
  • Built-in AGPS
  • Off-device (Bluetooth GPS) hardware.
• Location Server
• Basic Location Info Display (BLID)
• SUPL^[1]
• Landmarks Engine
• Map and Navigation framework
• Generic positioning plug-ins

Location Based System

• Location Based Triggering

Multimedia

MMF (Multimedia Framework)

• AV capture and playback services to applications

MDF (Multimedia Device Framework)

• Access to accelerated codecs
• A3F (Advanced Audio Adaptation Framework) layer for easier hardware integration

Media Player frameworks

• playlist parsing
• album art handling
• content listing

Content metadata manager

• Harvester engine for automatically building metadata database
• Querying engine providing metadata services to applications

Imaging Extension

• Image capture
• Image processing
• JPEG2000 codec
• EXIF
• Video encoding

Others

• Thumbnail Manager
• TV Output engine

Multimedia Applications

• Camera Apps
• Image Editor Apps
• Video Editor Apps
• Multimedia Gallery Apps
• Video Player Apps
• Photos
• Video Center
• Music Player Apps
• Radio Apps
• Voice Recorder Apps
• Image Viewer's UIs

OS Base Services

ARM Processor Family

• ARM9E (ARM9E - ARM Processor Family)
• ARM11 (ARM11 - ARM Processor Family)
• ARM Cortex A8 (ARM Cortex-A8 - ARM Processor)
• ARM Cortex A9 (ARM Cortex-A9 Single Core Processor - ARM Processor)

Power resource manager

• kernel-side Resource Manager API for managing power-related resources - eg voltage lines, clock lines, power domains

FAT performance improvements

• File server performance improvements from Memory card DMA transfers
• Optimised FAT cluster handling
• alignment of FAT user data area to media block boundaries

XML DOM parser

• DOM parsing provided by libxml2 XML engine

Symbian SQL

• Integrated SQLite client/server database optimised for mobile (performance, robustness on flash media etc)

Standard C support

• Including PIPS and OpenC
• Libc
• libpthread
• libdl
• libm
• Libssl
• libcrypt
• libz
• glib

Basic Std C++ support

• Static linking old STLPort
• Boost libraries
• Real-Time Graphics and Audio (RGA) APIs

Personal Communications

IP Telephony

• VOIP over SIP

Real-Time Media Sharing

Telephony

• Multimode Etel (2.5G / 3G / 3.5G)
• SMS (3GPP TS 23.040 V6.5.0)
• EMS (3GPP TS 23.040 V4.5)
• SIM Application Toolkit
• SIM and USIM support
• GSM Phase 2+
• WCDMA (3GPP R4, R5 and R6 IMS support)

Packet Data

• HSCSD
• GPRS, classes A, B and C (R97/98)
• EDGE (CSD and GPRS)
• HSDPA / HSUPA

Video Telephony

Quality-of-Service framework

Support for multiple primary and secondary PDP contexts

Third party OTA API

OMA PoC Engine

Messaging

• IM
• MMS+SMIL
• SMS
• OMA Multimedia Messaging Service v1.3

Productivity

Home Screen

• Swiping mode between Content and Clean HomeScreen
• Dynamic content

• WRT Miniview
• Native control

• Orientation support (Landscape/Portrait)
• Finger optimized customization

Messaging and Email

• Application suite covering:

• Email
• Messaging Center
• Notification dialogs and handlers
• Viewer and Editor UI controls

• Plug-in framework for messaging and email protocols, including implementations for:

• IMAP4, including IDLE support, RFC2177 and RFC 3501
• POP3, implementation compliant with RFC 1939
• SMTP, implementation compliant with RFC 2821
• SMTP Service Extension for Authentication, RFC 2554, Secure SMTP over Transport Layer Security, RFC 3207
• Secure email using TLS with IMAP, POP3, and ACAP, RFC 2595

• Application services provided to access messaging features, such as:

• Sending messages
• Accessing messaging store

• Other supported mobile messaging features include:

• OBEX messaging
• audio messaging
• OTA configuration messages
• smart messages

IM and Conversations

• Conversations application

• Integrated IM
• Presence
• VoIP

• XIMP Framework for messaging protocols, including:

• XMPP
• Extensible through extra plugins
• SMS Service activation

Personal organizer

• Calendar
• Clock
• Alarms
• Notepad with SyncML support
• Generic device Search
• User interface controls including:

• Meeting editors used by calendar and email.
• Advanced calendaring features

• vCalendar 1.0 compliance
• iCalendar 2.0 (RFC 2446)
• Support for calendar attachments and location data
• Interoperability with Lotus and Microsoft Exchange servers.
• Flexible customization framework
• Regional plugins
• Extensible search plug-in framework, with data providers for:

• Contacts
• Calendar
• Music

Contacts

• Phonebook
• Call Logs
• Interoperability
• vCard 2.1 compliance
• SIM synchronization engine
• Application Services and APIs for managing contact data
• UI Controls for editing and viewing contacts
• Predictive contact search features based on T9
• Presence cache and buddy list with a simple contact presence API
• Phonebook extensibility to add extra service tabs (XSPs)

Utility Applications

• File Manager

• Including UI controls for file system access.

• Calculator
• About
• Dictionary
• Converter

Runtimes

Open Environments

• Symbian C++
• Standard ANSI C libraries including partial POSIX support (P.I.P.S)

Web

• HTML & XHTML Over TCP/IP
• OSS WebKit-based browser
• Web Runtime 1.1 (for widgets)

Security

Security, Privacy and Content Protection

• Application security based on capabilities
• File system data caging using application secure identifiers
• Symmetric encryption: DES, 3DES, RC2, ARC4 and AES
• Asymmetric encryption: DSA and RSA
• Hash and message digest algorithms: MD2, MD4, MD5, SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512 and HMAC
• Cryptographic token framework
• Content Access Framework for Digital Rights Management (DRM)
• OMA DRM 1.0 and OMA DRM 2.0
• IPSec and VPN client support, including IKEv1 and IKEv2
• SSLv3 and TLS 1.0

Security Management

• Secure Software Install
• Certificate management (X.509v3 certificates)
• Revocation checking (On-line Certificate Status Protocol)

User Interface

Video Outputs

• Single or Multiple Displays
• TV-Out

Screen Resolution

• nHD (640x360)

Screen Color Depth

• up to 24bits

Graphics

• Bitmap font
• Vector font support

• advanced font effects

• 2D and 3D graphics support

• OpenGL ES
• OpenVG

System GUI Frameworks

• Flexible application and UI frameworks
• Control and windowing environments
• Home Screen MiniView

Input Methods

• Touch Screen
• Full Qwerty
• Half Qwerty
• Keypad
• Combined input (Keypad/Keyboard, Keyboard/Touch)

Feedback Methods

• Basic tactile feedback