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, Lenovo, Mitsubishi, Motorola, Nokia, Panasonic,
Samsung, Sendo, Sharp, Siemens, and Sony Ericsson. 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!