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3GSM World Congress, Cannes, France – 15 February 2004 – Symbian Limited today announced that it has teamed up with leading providers of Symbian OS™ application s– Handango, Handmark and Motricity – to offer the latest and most exciting Symbian OS applications for free! Visit Symbian’s booth at 3 GSM – stand B 11 , hall 1 - to download the applications straight to your Symbian OS phone via Symbian Platinum Partner WideRay’s easy-to-use distribution system.

Symbian OS is the operating system that powers today’s most popular smartphones , including Nokia 7610, Sony Ericsson P 910, Siemens SX 1, Panasonic X 700 and Motorola A 1000. The open Symbian OS platform allows users to add third party applications to their phones, and personalize them to an unprecedented degree. To date, more than 4,200 Symbian OS applications have been developed and are now commercially available.

As sales of Symbian OS phones hit the 25 million mark, the Symbian OS application ecosystem is expanding at an average of 30% per quarter. According to  Symbian OS applications are the highest selling smartphone applications. Furthermore, Handango’s Symbian OS application sales increased more than 80% in 2004 compared to 2003. The average customer for a Symbian OS phone bought 17% more applications than the average customer for other mobile platforms.

WideRay's Jack Service Point is a consumer-friendly wireless content interaction hub and will be ready to access at the Symbian 3 GSM booth. Symbian OS phone users will be able to quickly and easily download the following Symbian OS applications for free, courtesy of Handango, Handmark and Motricity:

Courtesy of Handango

PhotoID
PhotoID is a Symbian OS application that ensures you know who’s calling. The application allows you to associate a full-sized image with a contact: when they call, that image is displayed. PhotoID maintains an internal list of photos for the contacts, but can also obtain images from the standard Contacts application. Images can be taken from the camera or from an existing file in your phone's memory.

SoundCover
Did you ever wish you could hide your location when talking on the phone? Ever wanted to give the impression you were somewhere else? With SoundCover you can hide your real location by the addition of background sounds to your phone calls. Pretend you're at the dentist, in the park, on the street, caught in a thunderstorm, near heavy machinery or at a circus parade.

MailX
MailX will push your email directly on to your Symbian OS phone, ensuring you’re never out of touch from important mail.

Psiloc IrRemote
Where’s the remote? Now you can have all the controls in one place. With this unique universal Remote Control you can define your own set of devices you want to control from your phone. Your new universal irRemote does not have to learn anything – with its innovative one-off setup process, you just choose your brand from the list, then select device type (TV,DVD,VCR,CD, etc.) and it works simply and easily.

SplashPhoto
SplashPhoto turns your smartphone into a mobile digital picture frame. Simply edit and organize your favorite images with the included desktop software then sync with your Symbian OS phone to take your pictures with you.

SplashID
SplashID safely and securely stores all of your personal identification information including user names, passwords, credit cards, calling cards, bank accounts, PINs, and more. Information is stored in a secure, encrypted format and is quickly accessible on a smartphone or desktop computer.

Smartner Always-On Mail
Smartner Always-On Mail extends access to Internet email to smartphones quickly, easily, securely-and very affordably. Smartner Duality delivers all the benefits of real-time messaging and with a seamless user experience, on-the-spot activation and installation, and end-to-end security.

Courtesy of Handmark

Handmark’s Pocket Express
All the sources of information you need via one easy to navigate menu. Up to 30 times faster than web browsing with 80 percent fewer keystrokes. Access the latest in news from the U.S. and around the world; sports updates; weather conditions, forecasts, and alerts for more than 2 million global locations; individual stock quotes from the NYSE and NASDAQ; movie theater locations and show times; white and yellow page directory search with reverse number lookups; detailed street-level maps and turn-by-turn driving directions.

Courtesy of Motricity

eReader
eReader.com, a division of Motricity, is the world’s largest electronic book (eBook) store and the first electronic book publisher to offer contemporary fiction and nonfiction titles, newspapers and magazines.eBooks from eReader.com can be read on handheld or smartphone devices, as well as on Windows and Macintosh notebook and desktop computers. eReader is the world’s most popular eBook reading software. In fact, over 50% of all eBooks are read on the award-winning eReader Pro.

About Handango

Handango is the leading provider of mobile downloads bringing over 50,000 applications and 25, 000 digital media titles to market through an extensive global distribution network that reaches millions of mobile customers. Handango's application management and provisioning platform, Handango AMPP, has been chosen as the mobile software delivery platform for Nokia, Motorola, Verizon Wireless, Sprint, Cingular Wireless, T-Mobile ,Orange SA, Sony Ericsson, palmOne, Microsoft, HP, Sega Mobile, AOL and more than 100 others.

About Handmark

Handmark has a well-earned reputation for quality and superior technology as a provider of both applications and infrastructure for the delivery of content to smart mobile devices. Handmark® is the # 1 developer and publisher of entertainment and productivity software at retail for handheld mobile devices. Handmark is unique in its comprehensive offering of application software and online and wireless services. Handmark offers the broadest collection of fully supported tools and toys for a mobile generation™.

Handmark leads the industry in offering handheld computing software through all available channels, including both online and at retail. Handmark also owns and maintains MemoWare.com, the largest repository of free content for mobile devices.

Handmark is a member of Microsoft Mobility Partner Advisory Council (MPAC)–a unique partner program developed by Microsoft to serve as a focused feedback mechanism for Microsoft Windows.

Mobile platform development, and provide leading companies with the tools and resources they need to bring the most innovative and successful mobility solutions to market.

Handmark is also a charter infrastructure partner of Palm Powered™ Mobile World.

About Motricity

Motricity is the premier provider of mobile content infrastructure to the wireless industry, uniquely powering over 100 million mobile subscribers with its market-leading Fuel mobile content delivery platform. With a catalog of more than 75,000 digital media titles, the company is also one of the world's largest providers of mobile content through its network of consumer websites and channel partnerships, reaching over 10 million consumers worldwide.

About Symbian Ltd.

Symbian is a software licensing company that develops and licenses Symbian OS, the global open industry standard operating system for advanced, data-enabled mobile phones.

Symbian licenses Symbian OS to the world’s leading handset manufacturers. The following Symbian OS licensees have Symbian OS-based mobile phones in production and development: Arima, BenQ, Fujitsu for NTT DoCoMo FOMA, LG, Lenovo, Motorola, Nokia, Panasonic, Sendo, Siemens, Samsung and Sony Ericsson. Close to 20 million Symbian OS-based mobile phones have been sold to date.

Symbian has its headquarters in London , United Kingdom with offices in the United States, Europe and Asia(Bangalore, Beijing,Seoul and Tokyo).

For further information about Symbian:
Symbian
press@symbian.com

About WideRay

WideRay enables the deployment of "proximity services"- targeted, on-demand, on-location delivery of content, transactions, software, and services directly to end-user mobile devices. WideRay provides a single-box communications, application, and content server called a Jack Service Point that supports instant ad-hoc connections with infrared and Bluetooth equipped devices running on the Symbian OS and other mobile platforms. WideRay's customers include TeliaSonera, EB Games, GM, Nokia, CTIA, and Microsoft. WideRay is privately held and headquartered in San Francisco.

Media Enquiries

Anatolie Papas Global PR Manager Symbian Software Ltd +44 207 154 1383 press@symbian.com