Qualcomm Innovation Center Joins the Symbian Foundation

San Diego and London (ots/PRNewswire) -

- Collaboration Will Influence Direction of Symbian Platform,
Strengthen Foundation and Expand Symbian Ecosystem, Enabling New,
Innovative Mobile Devices -

Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. (QuIC) and the Symbian
Foundation today announced that QuIC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of
Qualcomm Incorporated, has joined the Symbian Foundation and has been
appointed to the Symbian Foundation board of directors. QuIC will
support the Symbian Foundation with active participation on the board
of directors and each of the four councils that govern the
development of the Symbian platform.

QuIC's charter is to focus on optimizing open source software for
use with Qualcomm technology. QuIC brings to the Symbian Foundation a
wealth of knowledge and expertise in open source and, as a Symbian
Foundation board member, QuIC is committed to working with its fellow
board members for Symbian's continued commercial success. QuIC joins
wireless operators AT&T, Vodafone and NTT DOCOMO; silicon providers
ST Microelectronics NV and Texas Instruments; and handset
manufacturers Samsung, Sony Ericsson and Nokia on the Symbian
Foundation board.

The Symbian platform comprises a complete, open source mobile
operating system, user interfaces, middleware and key mobile
applications used in more than 300 million smartphone devices
worldwide. It includes the critical software elements a manufacturer
or operator needs to build a mobile device. Symbian was built for
mobile and enables mobile developers to use open SDKs to create
compelling mobile applications that take full advantage of all
Symbian-based handsets.

"QuIC joining the Symbian Foundation and the Symbian Foundation
board demonstrates our commitment to provide expertise and to
optimize technology with the Symbian platform," said Rob Chandhok,
president of QuIC. "High-level operating systems offer the potential
to unleash tremendous innovation and we are excited to help advance
that process on the Symbian platform. Working as part of the Symbian
Foundation, QuIC looks forward to participating in technology
innovation in areas such as multi-core CPU support, Web browser and
application enhancement, and CDMA and LTE support."

"The Symbian Foundation welcomes QuIC, whose membership and board
participation brings us significant wireless technology expertise and
whose leadership will act as an important catalyst for the growth of
the Symbian ecosystem," said Lee Williams, executive director of the
Symbian Foundation. "On behalf of the Symbian Foundation board, we
look forward to collaboratively evolving and rapidly expanding the
Symbian open source software platform with QuIC."

About Symbian Foundation Ltd.

The Symbian Foundation is an independent, non-profit organization
whose mission is to enable an open ecosystem that collaborates to
create the most complete and richest user experiences for mobile
devices. Symbian maintains the code for an open source software
platform based on Symbian OS and software assets contributed by
Nokia, NTT DOCOMO and Sony Ericsson, including the S60 and MOAP(S)
user interfaces. Portions of the platform's source code have already
been moved to open source under the Eclipse Public License. By
mid-2010 this process will be complete, making the platform code
available to all for free.

The foundation software licensing model and governance structure
has been designed to secure transparency, encourage contribution and
maintain platform consistency. The foundation promotes collaboration,
contributions and active participation, and operates as a
meritocracy.

The Symbian Foundation now occupies offices in the U.K. (London),
U.S. (Foster City), Japan (Tokyo) and Finland (Helsinki), and will
soon have a regional operation in China (Beijing). For more
information please visit www.symbian.org and blog.symbian.org.

About the Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc.

Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of
Qualcomm Incorporated, focused on enabling and optimizing open source
software for use with Qualcomm technology. The company is focused on
technical innovations to mobile open source software that leverage
the unique capabilities of today's mobile devices, with a particular
eye to optimizing platforms and the applications that run on them via
tight hardware integration.

Symbian Foundation is a registered trademark of Symbian
Foundation Inc. Qualcomm is a registered trademark of Qualcomm
Incorporated. All other trademarks are the property of their
respective owners.

Qualcomm Innovation Center Contact:
Jeremy James, Seismic Marketing
+1-858-451-5589
quicpublicrelations@quicinc.com
Symbian Foundation Contacts:
US: June Parina, Sparkpr
+1-415-321-1872
june@sparkpr.com
UK/Europe: Katie Buckett, Brands2Life
+44-20-7592-1200
katie.buckett@brands2life.com

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Contact:
Jeremy James of Seismic Marketing, +1-858-451-5589,
quicpublicrelations@quicinc.com, for Qualcomm Innovation Center,
Inc.; or US, June Parina of Sparkpr, +1-415-321-1872,
june@sparkpr.com; or UK/Europe, Katie Buckett of Brands2Life,
+44-20-7592-1200, katie.buckett@brands2life.com, both for Symbian
Foundation Ltd.