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Symbian shipments up five per cent
Tim Green Sep 2 2008, 10:36am
Financials show 19.6 million devices shipped in 2Q 2007, up five per cent year on year.
The shipments bring the cumulative total to 225.9 million across 249 different phone models since the formation of Symbian ten years ago. At the end of Q2, seven Symbian licensees had 92 phone models in development, an increase of 48 per cent on 2Q2007.
Of course, the last quarter marked a sea change in Symbian’s history, as the OS was bought out by Nokia and began switching to an open source model. As expected, average royalty per unit declined as licensees migrated onto v9 of Symbian. Against this, there was a 76 per cent growth in consulting services from £5.1 million in H1 2007 to £9.0 million in H1 2008.
Symbian also confirmed that 9,834 third-party Symbian applications are now commercially available, compared with 7,888 by June 30th 2007.
Nigel Clifford, Symbian CEO, believes Symbian is now set to move further into the mainstream. He said: ““Our highly innovative product roadmap will ensure that Symbian OS continues to lead in the high-end converged device and smartphone markets whilst its penetration into the mid-range segments increases. As proof of this, there are now 159 Symbian phone models available in the global market from eight handset vendors.”
