The Japanese company Omron and ITEX have developed an application for SymbianOS that boosts the data transfer speed via infrared to values 10x higher than the current speed.

ITX-EG jointly developed IrSimple with NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Sharp Corp. and Waseda University in August 2005. The protocol has since been formally adopted as a global standard by IrDA (Infrared Data Association), an international industry organization that develops and standardizes specifications for infrared communications. Incorporating IrSimple into digital consumer electronics devices and home appliances is expected to lead to a significant expansion in applications for this new communications protocol. For example, users can take high-resolution photographs with a mobile phone or digital camera and then transmit them instantly to a flat-panel TV or printer with a simple “point and shoot” operation.

As a Symbian Competence Center, Omron brings to the partnership a wealth of experience in developing software for the Symbian OS, much vaunted as the operating system of choice for next-generation mobile telephones.