11.70m Symbian OS shipments in Q1 2006

Symbian Limited, developer and licensor of Symbian OS, 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)
• 11 new Symbian OS phone models and variants commenced shipping in Q1 from 6 licensees
• During Q1 2006, the 100th phone model 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)

There is also the chief executive commentary covering operationial review, market, technology and outlook you can read from Symbian’s site.