Symbian OS Passes 100 Million Mark

Since the first Symbian OS phone — the Ericsson R380 — shipped in
2000, Symbian-based smartphones have been manufactured by BenQ,
Ericsson, Fujitsu (OTCPK: FJTSY), Lenovo (OTCPK: LNVGY), Mitsubishi, Motorola (NYSE: MOT), Nokia (NYSE: NOK), Panasonic,
Samsung, Sendo, Sharp, Siemens, and Sony Ericsson (NYSE: SNE). Nokia alone
manufactures 10 Symbian OS cell phones per second and has shipped more
than 70 million Symbian OS-based S60-enabled devices. To date, 44 Nokia
devices based on Symbian OS have been been launched.

According to Canalys Research, Nokia’s Symbian-based S60 commands 51
percent worldwide market share for converged devices. Other
Symbian-based smartphones make up 22 percent market share, leaving 27
percent for other operating system vendors (Palm, Microsoft, Linux, and
others). In addition, Orange, a brand of the France Telecom Group which
has 149 million customers on five continents, recently announced a
collaboration with Nokia to create Orange-specific software development
packages to complement Nokia’s Symbian OS.

Source: Dr. Dobb’s Portal

So it took 6 years to sell 100 million smart phones, that’s over 1.6 million a year, over 300,000 a week, over 45,000 a day, and most impressive almost 2000 phones an hour. That is amazing. I never realized how fast the cellular telecommunications feild is exploding. This is only Symbian too, there is another 50% of market space!