Known for its smartphones and advanced, data-enabled mobile phones, Symbian is coming up with two new features, which will make smartphones faster and richer in graphics in the future. The first technology, called ScreenPlay is new graphics architecture in Symbian OS.
Screeplay technology will create a rich visual experience on smartphones with user interface, so that it can integrate high-definition video content, life like games and animation to smartphones. 
Manufacturers can use the ScreenPlay architecture to build graphically abundant applications, which use transition effects, transparency, and overlays. The new technology works in software of midrange devices and utilizes hardware acceleration on high-end devices.
The other technology is called FreeWay, a new Internet Protocol networking architecture in Symbian OS. It has the capability to create a broadband-like experience on smartphones, including superfast download speeds, high resolution audio and video streaming, and good-quality VoIP calls without latency and jitter. Depending on the availability of high-speed wireless services like WiMax and Long Term Evolution, Freeway the high bandwidth, which also known as 3G. With the FreeWay architecture, samrtphones would be able to switch among different types of networks without losing a connection. A key feature of FreeWay is its compatibility with existing applications like web browsers, allowing these to take advantage of the benefits of FreeWay without any additional development.
These two new technologies are further enhanced with Symbian’s Symmetric Multi Processing (SMP) on Symbian OS. These two technologies offers ‘performance on demand’ to maximize battery life and multimedia user experience on future converged mobile devices with multi-processor chipsets.
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