Two new Symbian OS-based mobile phones ship in Japan

London, UK, 4 January 2005 - Symbian has announced that two new phones based on Symbian OS are now shipping in the Japanese market.

The F901iC, the new FOMA 3G phone launched by NTT DoCoMo on December 24th 2004, is the seventh Symbian OS phone manufactured by Fujitsu Limited in Japan. The new phone was developed on NTT DoCoMo’s and Fujitsu Limited’s Symbian OS-based common software platform for FOMA, which was announced on November 18th 2004.

Vodafone KK also started shipping its first Symbian OS-based 3G phone, the Vodafone 702NK (Nokia 6630), in December last year. 

Open standards-based Symbian OS enables its licensees the benefits of delivering advanced mobile phones with reduced phone development costs, accelerated time-to-market and the ability to add unique features to phones which network operators require to differentiate their products. With Symbian OS, consumers will have a wide choice of new 3G smartphones faster than ever.

Symbian OS is the leading OS for advanced mobile phones.  Close to 20 million Symbian OS-based phones have shipped to date.

The following eight Symbian OS-based handsets have been sold in Japan to date:

• NTT DoCoMo FOMA ”Raku Raku” Phone (manufactured by Fujitsu)
• NTT DoCoMo FOMA F900iC; FOMA F900iT; FOMA F900i; FOMA F2102V; FOMA F2051; FOMA F901iC (manufactured by Fujitsu)
• Vodafone K.K.’s Vodafone 702NK (Nokia 6630) - the first Symbian OS phone for Vodafone K.K.; first Symbian OS phone from a non-Japanese vendor.

For further information please see the Symbian OS phones pages or email:
press@symbian.com

“FOMA” is a trademark or registered trademark of NTT DoCoMo, Inc. in Japan and other countries.

NTT DoCoMo’s “FOMA” service is only available to subscribers in Japan.