Advanced mass data handling and location based services technologies launched on Symbian OS
Symbian today announced Symbian SQL and an advanced Location Based Services (LBS) architecture. Symbian SQL and the new LBS architecture will help Symbian licensees develop handsets that handle very large amounts of data, and which provide users with relevant information based on their current location, in tune with consumer demand.
Mobile phones featuring Symbian’s LBS offering were recently launched in Japan. In Europe, Symbian’s LBS architecture will appear in mobile phones later this year. Symbian SQL will be featured in phones shipping in the second half of 2008 and be available to application developers via a download in Q2 2008.
“When I authored SQLite in 2000, I never imagined that it would one day be used in mobile phones to host databases with millions of searchable entries,” said Dr. Richard Hipp, architect and primary author of SQLite. “The advanced design of Symbian OS meshes well with SQLite, resulting in a stable and robust platform for supporting new applications. I look forward to seeing the innovation that Symbian SQL sparks from developers across the world.”
The Symbian’s LBS architecture enables:
- Tracking by emergency services (as mandated by government legislation in some regions
- Providing the quickest route - getting from A to B as quickly as possible
- Accurate pin-pointing of current location
- Geotagging images and videos - location stamping images and videos
- Finding the location of people in a contacts list
- Locating the nearest services
- Providing proximity alerts when near a specific location