S60 Smartphone Quality Assurance: A Guide for Mobile Engineers and Developers

Chapter 5: Certificates and Standards

Some of the S60 technologies may need separate certification and some of the features may require third-party licensing plus mandatory third-party acceptance prior to the terminal being shipped. This chapter introduces such features, but, since every Licensee holds its own contracts with these third parties, they should check their liabilities concerning licensing and certification responsibilities as set out in the agreements with the owners of the IPR (Intellectual Property Rights). The sections in this chapter should therefore be read as if they are describing a case, in which the areas listed are understood to be the liabilities of the phone program. Special attention should be paid to Java, which in most cases requires both certification and third-party licensing.

Common to all these separately licensable technologies is that it is very unlikely that any international legal agreement will be reached within a reasonable time. Thus, it may be necessary to involve several lawyers to make all clauses in the contract acceptable to both parties.

The Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) technologies described later in this chapter are based on optional interoperability and verification events for terminal manufacturers, but are highly recommended to each phone program. The S60 Platform introduces some parts of the cellular standards that may be totally new to licensees or have not been taken into use by some operators.

In addition to the above, government ...