11.70m Symbian OS shipments in Q1 2006

[Nikos Kartalis]

Symbian Limited, developer and licensor of Symbian OS the market-leading open operating system for data-enabled mobile phones also known as smartphones, today released the following unaudited financial and operational figures for the quarter ended 31 March 2006:

Q1 2006 Highlights

• Global shipments of Symbian OS phones during Q1 2006 rose to 11.70m; year on year quarter growth of 73% (Q1 2005 – 6.75m)
• Cumulative shipments of Symbian OS phones since Symbian’s formation reached 70.5 million phones
• 10 licensees are currently shipping 66 different Symbian OS phone models to more than 250 major network operators worldwide (Q1 2005 48 phones from 9 licensees)
• Q1 2006 Symbian’s revenues grew to £38.8m – an increase of 56% on Q1 2005
• 56 Symbian OS phone models are under development by 9 licensees (Q1 2005, 41 phones & variants and 11 licensees) (see Notes to Editors for definitions)
• 11 new Symbian OS phone models and variants commenced shipping in Q1 from 6 licensees which included (see Notes to Editors for definitions):
• Fujitsu’s FOMA™ F702iD for NTT DoCoMo’s FOMA 3G network with NTT DoCoMo’s MOAP user interface
• Mitsubishi’s FOMA D702i for NTT DoCoMo’s FOMA 3G network with NTT DoCoMo’s MOAP user interface
• Nokia 9300 Chinese variant, Nokia 9300i European variant, Nokia 9300 EDGE U.S. variant, with the Nokia Series 80 software
• Nokia's FOMA™ NM850iG (Nokia 6630 Japanese variant) for NTT DoCoMo’s FOMA 3G network with S60 software
• Nokia 3250 with S60 software
• Nokia N90 for EDGE with S60 software
• Samsung D728 GSM Chinese variant with S60 software
• Sharp’s FOMA SH702iD for NTT DoCoMo’s FOMA 3G network with NTT DoCoMo’s MOAP user interface
• Sony Ericsson’s FOMA SO902i for NTT DoCoMo’s FOMA 3G network with NTT DoCoMo’s MOAP user interface
• During Q1 2006, the 100th phone model (see notes for definitions) based on Symbian OS commenced shipping
• 27 of the 66 (41%) Symbian OS phones shipping during Q1 2006 are designed for 3G W-CDMA networks
• 4,735 third party applications for Symbian OS phones are now commercially available, up 25% (Q1 2005 – 3,804 applications) (Source: Symbian research; see Notes to Editors for methodology)