Symbian and America Online today announced that America Online has joined Symbian's Platinum Program. As a Symbian Platinum partner, America Online will develop its wireless instant messaging services - AOL Instant Messenger and ICQ - as well as its predictive text input software, T9 Text Input, for Symbian OS based devices. In addition, America Online will have the ability to develop content-based services and applications for Symbian OS.
The Symbian Platinum Program includes companies that have a technology or strategic position that the Symbian consortium considers to be key to the success of mobile computing technology surrounding Symbian OS. As part of the program, Platinum Partners benefit from a range of commercial services, as well as privileged access to Symbian OS source code and a Partner Support team.">