Symbian Limited, developer and licensor of Symbian OS the market-leading operating system for smartphones, today released the figures for the quarter ended 31 March 2007.
Highlights:
- 15.9m Symbian smartphones shipped by licensees in Q1 2007, a 35.9% increase on Q1 2006
- 126 million cumulative Symbian smartphone unit shipments, as of 31 March 2007
- 20 million cumulative Symbian smartphone unit shipments milestone reached in Japan since first 3G Symbian model shipped in 2003
- 14 new Symbian smartphone models commenced shipment in Q1 2007
- 7,478 third party Symbian applications are commercially available, as of 31 March 2007, up 58%
Full releases are available on Symbian’s site.