Today's big announcement from the Symbian Developer Expo is the Intel-Symbian one, which means that the two mobile phone platform partners Microsoft announced at GSM World Congress, TI and Intel, are now both announced Symbian partners. Today's Intel deal seems to be a straight Symbian equivalent of the Microsoft GSM announcement. Symbian OS 7.0 has been optimised for Intel's XScale and Personal Internet Client Architecture (PCA), and the two companies will be shipping a board support package to "accelerate the process of designing next-generation cellular phones and applications."

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