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Sonim, a provider of IP communication solutions, has joined Symbian’s Platinum Partnership programme.

The two companies will work together to develop and promote a version of Sonim’s client technology for the Symbian OS. The software enables users to access features such as instant push-to-talk voice calls, text- and voice-based instant messaging and presence detection. These capabilites are delivered using GPRS and can be sold by network operators as value-added services. Sonim’s solutions supports standards such as session initiation protocol (SIP) and the SIP extension standard, SIMPLE.

“Sonim is committed to providing superior voice applications that help drive operator revenue. Our goal is to make IP-based instant communication ubiquitous across devices, and this partnership with Symbian takes us one step closer to our goal.” David Wood, executive vice president, partnering, evangelism and research, Symbian, added: “Symbian strives to provide its customers with innovative and compelling applications that will make a real difference to their bottom-line business objectives. The Sonim Instant Communication platform offers feature-rich solutions that will in turn help to significantly increase operator revenue.”