Making his best attempt to conjure up Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, David Wood, vice president of research at Symbian, said, "The three most important words for success on the Symbian platform are 'developers, developers, developers!'" Wood, who was mimicking the chant made famous by Ballmer, then added, "But don't worry, I'm not going to break into a dance at this stage."

Wood spoke at the Symbian Smartphone Show here, detailing the moves Symbian has made and continues to make to attract and cater to developers. Indeed, the company made several announcements at the event intended to improve the experiences of developers. For one, the company introduced the Symbian Analysis Workbench, or SAW, which Wood described as "a new analytic tool that plugs into Carbide and gives you a look at what's running."

Symbian officials said SAW makes development easier and faster by significantly reducing the time and effort needed to fix defects and optimize code. SAW is a prepackaged set of Eclipse-based tools that make life easier for developers by optimizing Symbian C++ software via graphical views integrated into the Carbide C++ development environment. Carbide is a set of tools built by Nokia.

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