News
Symbian ships 50m plus in 2006
Tim Green at 3GSM Feb 13 2007, 2:30pm
Symbian shipped 51.7 million smartphones in 2006, up 52 per cent on the 2005 total.
The number maintains Symbian’s relentless growth and its domination of the mobile OS sector. It takes the cumulative lifetime shipments to 110 million.
Symbian now powers smartphone models shipping from nine licensees through over 250 operators worldwide. This also represents a big leap – 80 per cent up on 2005. Handset partners include Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Sharp, Mitsubishi, Fujitsu, Samsung, LG and others.
Motorola is using Symbian inside its new flagship Motorizr Z8. On the apps side, there are now 6,896 third party Symbian applications commercially available.
The company is now working on the roll out of Symbian OS v9.3, which will begin shipping in devices later this year.
