CTIA Wireless, Orlando, USA and London, UK – Symbian Ltd. today announced Symbian OS v9.5, the latest evolution of the world’s leading operating system for smartphones. Symbian OS v9.5 brings high performance features designed for richer consumer and enterprise experiences as well as significant savings to phone build costs and time to market, delivering a truly scalable operating system for the global market.

Symbian OS v9.5 is the result of continued deep collaboration with Symbian OS licensees, the world’s leading handset vendors, and its user interface platform partners including MOAP, S60 and UIQ. With high smartphone growth in developing markets and as mass market requirements from handset manufacturers continue to rise, Symbian’s addressable market is broadening across segments and regions.

Symbian OS v9.5, backward compatible with all versions of the v9 family, includes the following key enhancements:

Higher performance for lower hardware cost

Symbian OS v9.5 delivers performance improvements with reductions in requirements on memory, processor and battery, enabling smartphones based on Symbian OS v9.5 to run on the same hardware as feature phones.

Faster time to market

Symbian is continuing to improve time-to-market for handset vendors, system integrators and developers. Symbian OS v9.5 introduces new hardware adaptation interfaces for digital TV and location based services (LBS) making it cheaper and easier to bring popular services to the mass market.