Business As Usual - Symbian Shift 8.54m Units in Q3 2005 — Symbian OS News

Ewan 16 Nov 2005, 14:21

The quarterly figures from Symbian, Ltd have ben released today and show a steady growth in pretty much every area. 8.54 million Symbian handsets shipped in Q3 of 2005, 60 different Symbian powered devices, 4500 applications available and 11 licencees developing handsets. But the headline number everyone should start paying attention to is the installed user base, now standing at 48 million Symbian OS users. Which is probably a number the Microsoft Windows team would love to be closer to than an order of magnitude.

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Utenteanonimo64 17 Nov 2005, 12:01

nice figures but we all know that symbian is growing so fast only because Nokia is using it in a wider segment of its product portfolio... and with the exclusion of SonyEricsson the other licensees are close to nihil in terms of shipped units.

Rafe 17 Nov 2005, 12:10

Actually Fujitsu is the number 2 licensee in terms of units sold.

Utenteanonimo64 17 Nov 2005, 12:56

I stand corrected. Considering that this second licensee has no presence in the european market I think I'm not too far off when I say that Symbian sales=Nokia sales in Europe....