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Symbian’s CEO, Nigel Clifford, highlighted Q2 financial figures and added – Symbian continues to lead the global smartphone market with 12.3m Symbian smartphones shipping worldwide.
Highlights:
- A total of 23 Symbian smartphone models commenced shipping in Q2 2006
- 5,323 third party Symbian applications are now commercially available, an increase of 29% on Q2 last year
- With 15 of the 23 new Symbian phone models that commenced shipping in Q2 2006 designed for 3G W-CDMA networks, Symbian is a 3G leader
Looking forward, Nigel concluded that with the new range of the Symbian OS v9 phones soon coming to market and with the availability of Symbian’s new scalable pricing options from July 06 onwards, he expects to see an acceleration of Symbian smartphones in the lower cost device market segments, driving higher volumes of exciting phones and services.
Links: Press release, Webcast.
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Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.
