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Symbian OS's ScreenPlay and FreeWay Enhances UI and Speeds Downloads

In addition to the touchscreen UI we saw in Symbian last week, two new features—ScreenPlay and FreeWay—are coming to add even more sophistication to the platform. ScreenPlay is their new graphics engine that allows transparency and animations without taking up too much more battery life. FreeWay is less visible, but it's a new IP networking stack/architecture on 3G networks/WiMax to allow faster audio/video streaming and VoIP calling. Check out the touch video above again just for a refresher.

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SlingPlayer Mobile for Symbian OS Coming: Tiny-Screen TV Everywhere

If you care about watching TV shows on a screen the size of a large postage stamp, Sling Media officially announced today it will bring Slingbox to those 82 million cellphones that use the Symbian operating system. The SlingPlayer Mobile for Symbian OS will launch first in the fourth quarter in Europe and Asia, with a United States launch happening soon thereafter. More »