Nokia Helps Indian Developers Go Global Date:   Tuesday , December 29, 2009 The Symbian platform has traditionally attracted the largest number of developers from around the world. Thousands of applications have been developed every month with a major chunk of it coming from Asian developers. Recognizing the vast pool of vibrant and qualified developers in India, Nokia has planned to undertake a series of initiatives to assist the Indian application developers tap the global revenue generating opportunities. "Considering that the next billion mobile users will be from emerging markets like India, our developers have the opportunity to shape the local and global consumer mobile experiences and lead the mobile applications ecosystem," says D. Shivakumar, Vice President and Managing Director, Nokia India, who was speaking at the Forum Nokia Developer Conference '09. To aid Indian developers, Nokia also announced the global release of a new software development kit (SDK) for its Series 40 mass market mobile devices, providing application developers with new tools to create unique applications and services for the high volume feature phone market worldwide. While Series 40 is the world’s highest volume mobile developer platform, the Series 40 Lite devices represent some of Nokia’s most popular mass market devices. With this release, Nokia makes it easier for publishers and developers to create innovative applications for millions of mobile consumers being served by Nokia Series 40 Lite devices across the world. This SDK will also feature support for Indian regional languages like Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Punjabi, Marathi, and Bengali. “Nokia India continues to invest heavily in its services strategy and we encourage the 180,000 local Forum Nokia developer members to leverage off our investments and the market opportunity to innovate and create new revenue opportunities for themselves,” says Shivakumar. Purnima Kochikar, Vice President, Forum Nokia and Developer Community feels that India has the largest and most vibrant pool of qualified developers in the world. She says, “As the Internet is entering into the core of mobile experiences, we see unprecedented opportunities for Indian developers in shaping the future of mobile services. This is just the beginning; we will work in close collaboration with the large, talented developer base in India. Our goal is clear, and that is to make it effortless for our partners to create and market highly appealing, relevant applications that consumers will find indispensable globally. Our focus is on open collaboration with the ecosystem and we continue to invest in creating large scale revenue opportunities for the application developers as well as on bringing in new powerful experiences for our consumers.” Nokia also showcased to the Indian developer community the latest Linux based Maemo 5 OS that will help deliver a true PC like experience. Nokia believes that the next evolution of software will expand across platforms, providing applications for multiple platforms and devices from a single source code base, based on common skills and tools. With a cross-platform approach, Nokia’s goal is to make life easier for developers by bringing out frameworks that will enable software written just once to work on more than one platform. The Nokia Developer Conference was attended by 650 developers from across India and featured sessions from a host of Nokia and Industry experts.