Symbian is still in the driver's seat

Colin Dunstan · 11-17-2005, 04:38 AM

Driven by rapid growth in the market for smartphones, Symbian Q3 shipments have more than doubled year-to-year. The software licensing consortium said shipments of handsets with Symbian OS rose 131 percent to 8.54 million in the three months to end-September. They generated royalties of 23.8 million pounds ($41.2 million), which is also more than double the figure for the same period a year ago, though the average royalty fell to $5 from $5.50 per unit. According to The Register, it's all thanks to Nokia:

It's all down to Nokia, of course. Symbian said 8.54m handsets shipped in Q3 with its software on board. It didn't break that down by licensee, but market watcher Canalys recently said Nokia shipped 7.1m smart phones in the same period, all of which are based on Symbian. Even allowing for discrepancies between the way Symbian and Canalys calculate their figures, Nokia accounts for over 80 per cent of Symbian's shipments.

11-17-2005, 04:38 AM	#1
Colin Dunstan Is papyrophobic! Posts: 1,926 Karma: 1009999 Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: USA Device: Dell Axim	Symbian is still in the driver's seat Driven by rapid growth in the market for smartphones, Symbian Q3 shipments have more than doubled year-to-year. The software licensing consortium said shipments of handsets with Symbian OS rose 131 percent to 8.54 million in the three months to end-September. They generated royalties of 23.8 million pounds ($41.2 million), which is also more than double the figure for the same period a year ago, though the average royalty fell to $5 from $5.50 per unit. According to The Register, it's all thanks to Nokia: It's all down to Nokia, of course. Symbian said 8.54m handsets shipped in Q3 with its software on board. It didn't break that down by licensee, but market watcher Canalys recently said Nokia shipped 7.1m smart phones in the same period, all of which are based on Symbian. Even allowing for discrepancies between the way Symbian and Canalys calculate their figures, Nokia accounts for over 80 per cent of Symbian's shipments.

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