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Twenty Million Symbian Handsets Sold in Japan
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Symbian has announced that over 20 million Symbian smartphones have shipped in Japan up until the end of March 2007.
Since the first 3G Symbian smartphones began shipping in Japan in 2003 -- the FOMA F2051 and FOMA F2102, manufactured by Fujitsu -- there has been solid growth of Symbian OS based models in Japan. In 2004, there were six Symbian OS based models manufactured by Fujitsu and Nokia. In 2005, there were 14 models from Fujitsu, Nokia, Mitsubishi, Sharp, and Motorola, which soared to 44 models from six handset vendors including Sony Ericsson in 2006.
As of May 2007, 55 Symbian OS-based models have been shipped.
It took three years to reach the first 10 million Symbian smartphones and less than one year to reach the next 10 million.
Haruhiko Hisa, President, Symbian Japan said: "We have reached the mark of shipping over 20 million Symbian smartphones as a result of the support we have been given by all our network operators, handset manufacturers and partners to become a more open and versatile OS. Going forward, we shall focus on contributing to the development of high function handsets at lower build costs as well as continuing to fulfill our important role of enlarging the mobile phone market."
Tags: [fujitsu] [symbian] [nokia,] [os] [motorola,]
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