Nokia/Symbian OS
The Symbian OS runs on more smartphones than any other OS, and is increasingly being used for innovative converged devices. Intrinsyc is the largest independent Symbian Development Center in North America. We have successfully implemented numerous products for Symbian and Nokia, and we can help you too.
With deep and extensive experience in both the Symbian core and application layers, Intrinsyc provides high quality services to handset manufacturers, mobile operators, and software vendors worldwide.
Uniquely Qualified
As one of the few elite Symbian Competence Centers in the entire world – and the only one headquartered in North America – Intrinsyc is uniquely qualified to be your partner in Symbian software development projects. With this designation, Symbian recognizes that Intrinsyc has the specialized skills and expertise to contribute to the successful creation and development of Symbian OS phones and highly integrated software products and drivers.
Get Inside Symbian
As a strategic partner, Intrinsyc has access to source code and premium support, as well as insight into the Symbian OS roadmap.
Through rigorous training programs, Intrinsyc engineers adopt the same programming techniques used internally by Symbian. Our developers are formally recognized as Accredited Symbian Developers, an industry-standard qualification for professional Symbian smartphone software developers.
This unique set of skills and insights enables Intrinsyc engineers to develop innovative solutions to complex technical requirements for current and future Symbian OS releases.
Expertise in the Latest Technologies
Intrinsyc offers deep OS integration with special expertise in the graphics, multimedia, communications, and connectivity technology streams crucial to next-generation Symbian handsets.
- Multimedia applications such as audio/video streaming and recording. Intrinsyc possesses expertise in multimedia protocols and technologies from the adaption level through to the application level. Intrinsyc has engineered media players for Symbian, ported the Microsoft® Media Transfer Protocol to Symbian, and worked on a variety of middleware multimedia projects.
- Location-based services and GPS applications. Intrinsyc helped port two different customers’ GPS software applications to multiple Symbian phone platforms.
Breadth and Depth
Intrinsyc has an unmatched range of development services and solutions for all Symbian technologies, delivered by the only top-to-bottom Symbian phone development and integration team in North America. Symbian solutions are shown in the diagram below.

Services
- Application design consultation and application development
- Application porting to Symbian V9.X from Windows® Embedded CE, Windows
Mobile®, Palm and Linux
- Technical training on development and deployment of applications and services
- Packaging and certification for Symbian OS V9.X
- Telephony integration for CDMA/VoIP/WiFi Dual-Mode phones
- Porting to updated and alternative APIs
- Base porting
Capabilities
| User Interface |
Sysstart, Apparc, and UIKLAF frameworks, scalable UI across S60, S80, UIQ |
| PIM |
Contacts, calendar |
| Messaging |
Plug-in MTMs for CDMA, GSM, WAP, SMS |
| Graphics and Multimedia |
Open VG, Wserv, media players, MTP, DRM, Video, Audio, Tuner |
| Connectivity and Synchronization Protocols |
Mobile Active Sync, Media Transfer Protocol, SyncML (OTA and Local), DRM |
| Enterprise Connectivity |
Security architecture (data caging), certificate management, cryptography |
| System Libraries |
ECOM, Central Repository, Form, Task Scheduler, etc. |
| Subsystems |
Base, TSY, USB Mass Storage, Power Management, Device Drivers |
Benefits of Working with Intrinsyc
Work with an established and successful Symbian® partner. Intrinsyc has successfully implemented numerous projects for leading handset makers such as Nokia®, application developers,
silicon vendors, and even Symbian itself.
- Reduce development time and cost. Intrinsyc’s Symbian training gives customers critical insight into the Symbian operating system in order to make informed decisions early in the product development cycle.
- Align with Symbian’s internal programming standards and techniques. Working with Intrinsyc can help improve time-to-market and product quality for Symbian OS mobile phones using UIQ 2.x/3.x and Nokia Series 60 platforms.