Calling all Symbian Developers: Expand your market reach with Satio™ and PlayNow™ arena Applications
Sony Ericsson’s first Entertainment Unlimited phone, Satio™, will be reaching local markets from early October 2009. Sony Ericsson’s one-stop content store, PlayNow™ arena, is building up a portfolio of applications and games for Satio™, which runs S60 5th Edition Symbian™ OS applications unmodified. Satio™ is a powerful, feature-packed phone which will make a big impact in the marketplace. It is therefore a significant new market opportunity which S60 v5.0 developers can start to exploit right now. Applications for entertainment and imaging are especially welcome.
Satio™ has a 12.1 megapixel camera, HSDPA network support Wi-Fi, aGPS, an accelerometer, a touchscreen with on-screen QWERTY keyboard, a 640x360 pixel 3.5 inch display in 16:9 widescreen format, WebKit browser, 128MB internal memory and external memory using SanDisk microSD™.
Satio™ is based on Symbian S60 5th Edition and the standard SDK from Symbian can be used to develop native applications.
Satio™ supports Java™ ME applications; JSR support is specified in the Satio™ White Paper.
Satio™ also features hardware graphics acceleration with OpenGL ES 2.0 support, a widely adopted 2D and 3D graphics API. OpenGL ES 1.x (also supported) allows for 3D graphics acceleration using fixed function hardware, whereas OpenGL ES 2.0 enables fully programmable “near photo realistic” 3D graphics. The SDK will be published shortly.
PlayNow™ arena is Sony Ericsson’s one-stop content store for music, ringtones, games, applications and much more. Direct access from the Satio™ phone means that the user can easily buy and download content using premium SMS or credit card. A web-based desktop interface is also available.
Sony Ericsson’s content submission website, submit.sonyericsson.com, has been open for Symbian applications and games since July 2009. It enables developers to submit content for sale or free download on PlayNow™ arena. There is no charge to submit content and no need to obtain Symbian Signed status until after the application has been accepted.
Sony Ericsson tests submitted applications on Satio™ hardware. We have found very few problems so far; if an application works in the SDK emulator, it will also work on Satio™. We will advise you if we find problems, and help you to fix bugs to get your application ready for sale.
Further help is available in the Symbian Foundation forum and Content submission forum in our community forum area on Developer World.
Satio™ has a 12.1 megapixel camera, HSDPA network support Wi-Fi, aGPS, an accelerometer, a touchscreen with on-screen QWERTY keyboard, a 640x360 pixel 3.5 inch display in 16:9 widescreen format, WebKit browser, 128MB internal memory and external memory using SanDisk microSD™.
Satio™ is based on Symbian S60 5th Edition and the standard SDK from Symbian can be used to develop native applications.
Satio™ supports Java™ ME applications; JSR support is specified in the Satio™ White Paper.
Satio™ also features hardware graphics acceleration with OpenGL ES 2.0 support, a widely adopted 2D and 3D graphics API. OpenGL ES 1.x (also supported) allows for 3D graphics acceleration using fixed function hardware, whereas OpenGL ES 2.0 enables fully programmable “near photo realistic” 3D graphics. The SDK will be published shortly.
PlayNow™ arena is Sony Ericsson’s one-stop content store for music, ringtones, games, applications and much more. Direct access from the Satio™ phone means that the user can easily buy and download content using premium SMS or credit card. A web-based desktop interface is also available.
Sony Ericsson’s content submission website, submit.sonyericsson.com, has been open for Symbian applications and games since July 2009. It enables developers to submit content for sale or free download on PlayNow™ arena. There is no charge to submit content and no need to obtain Symbian Signed status until after the application has been accepted.
Sony Ericsson tests submitted applications on Satio™ hardware. We have found very few problems so far; if an application works in the SDK emulator, it will also work on Satio™. We will advise you if we find problems, and help you to fix bugs to get your application ready for sale.
Further help is available in the Symbian Foundation forum and Content submission forum in our community forum area on Developer World.
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