Symbian releases Q1 stats

May 10, 2005 -- (MobileVillage) -- London based Symbian Limited today released unaudited financial and operational figures for the first quarter of 2005 (ending March 31).

In 2005, Q1 shipments of phones based on Symbian OS totalled 6.75m (up from 2.4m in Q1 2004), showing year on year growth of more than 180%. Cumulative shipments of Symbian OS phones since Symbian's formation reached 32m phones.

At the end of Q1 2005, the number of commercially available third party applications for Symbian OS phones had reached 3,804, up from 1,962 applications at the end of Q1 2004.

During Q1 2005, nine new phones based on Symbian OS started shipping from four licensees, Fujitsu, Mitsubishi, Panasonic and Nokia. As at March 31st 2005, 48 phones were shipping (up from 18 phones in Q1 2004) to more than 200 network operators from nine Symbian OS licensees: BenQ, Fujitsu, Mitsubishi, Motorola, Nokia, Panasonic, Sendo, Siemens and Sony Ericsson.

At 3GSM in February, seven new Symbian OS phones were announced by Lenovo, Motorola, Nokia Panasonic, Samsung and Sendo.

In February Symbian launched Symbian OS v9, with improved security and enterprise capabilities. Symbian OS v9 is targeted at higher volume, mid-tier phones. Phones based on Symbian OS v9 are anticipated to come to market during the second half of 2005.

In March Symbian licensed Microsoft's Exchange Server ActiveSync protocol. Symbian will develop an Exchange Server ActiveSync protocol 'plug-in' that will enable Symbian OS-based phones direct over-the-air (OTA) synchronization with email and other personal information management (PIM) data supported by Microsoft Exchange Server 2003.

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