Symbian OS used in NTT DoCoMo FOMA™ SH902i

Symbian announces 19th 3G phone for Japanese market

December 12, 2005 – Symbian Ltd. announced that Symbian OS™, the leading open standard based operating system for advanced mobile phones, is used in the NTT DoCoMo FOMA™ SH902i, which was launched on friday. The FOMA SH902i is manufactured by Symbian OS licensee Sharp Corporation.  

FOMA SH902i is the first model based on Symbian OS for Sharp and this increases the total number of Symbian OS-based mobile phones available in Japan to 19. Symbian OS brings higher quality mobile phones with better features quickly to consumers, expanding the 3G cell phone market even further.

NTT DoCoMo’s FOMA service is only available to subscribers in Japan
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About Symbian

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 and has built close co-operative business relationships with leading companies across the mobile industry.  In the first three quarters of 2005, more than 23 million Symbian OS-based mobile phones were sold worldwide to over 200 network operators, taking the installed base of Symbian OS phones to almost 48 million.

Symbian has its headquarters in London, United Kingdom with offices in the United States, Europe (Cambridge, UK and Ronneby, Sweden (UIQ Technology AB), Israel and Asia (Bangalore, Beijing, Seoul and Tokyo).

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The following 19 Symbian OS-based mobile phones are available in Japan:

• NTT DoCoMo FOMA Raku-Raku PHONE II; FOMA Raku-Raku PHONE (manufactured by Fujitsu)
• NTT DoCoMo FOMA F902i; FOMA F700iS; FOMA F901iS; FOMA F700i; FOMA F901iC; FOMA F900iC; FOMA F900iT; FOMA F900i; FOMA F2102V; FOMA F2051; (manufactured by Fujitsu); FOMA D902i; FOMA D701i, FOMA D901iS, FOMA D901i(manufactured by Mitsubishi Electric); FOMA M1000 (manufactured by Motorola), FOMA SH902i (manufactured by Sharp)
• Vodafone 702NK (Nokia 6630) (manufactured by Nokia)

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