What's new for C++ developers in Symbian OS v8.0?

Version 8.0 marks a significant evolution of Symbian OS from the v7.0s release one year previously. At the centre of this evolution is the inclusion of a new real-time kernel, known as EKA2 (distinguished from the previous EKA1). As well as facilitating the creation of single-CPU phones (i.e. with the telephony stack running on the same CPU as the OS), this new kernel delivers significant performance enhancements.
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Symbian OS System Definition - Detailed View (updated to include v8.0)

This paper complements the Symbian OS system definition paper, giving a breakdown of exactly which binary files constitute each of the system categories. Taken together with the Symbian Developer Library's systematisation of which library each public method of Symbian OS is exported from, it becomes possible to ascertain which such methods are available on which phones.
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Symbian OS System Definition

Many Symbian OS phones are coming to the market from mobile phone manufacturers and can be targeted by application developers. These phones use a variety of UI platforms providing different user interfaces. UI platform versions have corresponding SDKs. This paper discusses the relationship between Symbian OS versions and the derived SDK and phone products.
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