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Brief: Symbian Exec wants their OS on 1 in 10 mobile phones by 2011

Categories: Symbian
By: , IntoMobile
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008 at 3:08 PM

Vice-President for Symbian’s Strategy John Forsyth said on Wednesday that the company is aiming to supply 10 percent of the world-wide mobile phone market within the next three years.

Good luck with that sir, but I think Android is going to seriously stunt slow you down.

[Via: Reuters]

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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.

  • Chris P

    I thought with Nokia selling 40% of all mobiles, whiwch all use Symbian, combined with SE UIQ and Samsung etc, the share would be already far higher than 10%!?? I am obviously missing something here what is it?

  • Stefan Constantinescu

    the smartphone market is very small compared to the rest of the mobile phone space. nokia sells 100 million phones per quarter yet it took Nseries almost 2 years to break 50 million units. think about that.

  • Chris P

    So by Symbian the Reuters article really means S60? That would make much more sense.

  • Chris P

    My God, I am so dumb, in all this time of mobile geekery I thought Symbian made S40. :oops:

  • viipottaja.

    Android? Really? Hmm.. I am not convinced YET. :)

  • FLIPMO

    10% of the market is not a lot! Symbian needs to aim 80% of the market! They should have Nokia/SE/Moto/Samsung make ALL their phones with Symbian inside then you’d have quite a market within a short time!