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.