Symbian OS used in Raku-Raku PHONE Simple

Symbian announces 20th phone for Japanese market

December 16, 2005 – Symbian Ltd. announced that the NTT DoCoMo Raku-Raku PHONE Simple, which was launched today, is based on Symbian OS™, the leading, open standards based operating system for advanced mobile phones. The Raku-Raku PHONE Simple is manufactured by Symbian OS licensee Mitsubishi Electric Corporation.　　

This increases the total number of Symbian OS-based mobile phones available in Japan to 20.  Symbian OS brings higher quality mobile phones with better features quickly to consumers, expanding the 3G cell phone market even further.

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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 20 Symbian OS-based mobile phones are available in Japan:

• NTT DoCoMo FOMA Raku-Raku PHONE II; FOMA Raku-Raku PHONE; FOMA F902i; FOMA F700iS; FOMA F901iS; FOMA F700i; FOMA F901iC; FOMA F900iC; FOMA F900iT; FOMA F900i; FOMA F2102V; FOMA F2051; (manufactured by Fujitsu); Raku-Raku PHONE Simple; 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)

Media Enquiries

Hiroko Tanaka Symbian PR Burson-Marsteller 03-3264-6727 hiroko_tanaka@jp.bm.com

Kyoko Horikawa Marketing Symbian Ltd. 03-5425-2571 japan_press@symbian.com