Cingular Wireless and Symbian Limited today launched an early access support program to promote and accelerate application development for phones based on Symbian OS version 9. Cingular Deluxe and Corporate Deluxe developers are offered complimentary Symbian Affiliate status, providing early and free access to Symbian reference materials. Cingular has also joined the Symbian Platinum Partner Program, enabling Cingular employees access to exclusive program benefits.

A new Symbian Zone on Cingular devCentral provides Cingular Deluxe developers with early online access to the latest Symbian OS Library for Application Developers. This program is designed to give visibility of Symbian OS APIs and documentation before they are published in a smartphone SDK, helping accelerate application development for the latest Symbian smartphones coming to market including those with the S60 software.

Through the Cingular devCentral portal, developers will have full and unrestricted access to the latest Symbian Developer Library after completion of a simple click-through license agreement. Cingular Deluxe members taking advantage of this offer will have access to the Symbian OS Reference Guide - a definitive source of information for all Symbian OS C++ APIs which includes:

• a comprehensive introduction to the latest Symbian OS product release
• Symbian OS release notes
• Symbian OS C++ API Guide - including overviews by subsystems of all key APIs