Symbian welcomes Sony Ericsson’s M600 and P990

• The M600 - a slim, compact and stylish UMTS messaging phone featuring a touch screen and handwriting recognition 

• The P990, Sony Ericsson’s flagship Wi-Fi enabled UMTS smartphone - with new unannounced applications and entertainment content features

London, 6th Feb 2006 – Symbian Ltd. today welcomed Sony Ericsson’s announcement of the M600 and new applications for the P990.

The M600 is the second Symbian OS v9.1 and UIQ 3.0 enabled phone, after the P990, in the Sony Ericsson portfolio. New push email applications, remote synchronisation and expandable memory give owners a UMTS phone and email connectivity in a device that easily fits in their pocket - at just 15mm thick; it is one of the slimmest business UMTS devices of its kind available. 

For full release click here: http://www.symbian.com/news/cn/2006/cn20063392.html

The P990 offers all the benefits of UMTS including video calling, high-bandwidth multi-media downloads and the ability to browse the Internet with full HTML pages. These can be viewed in landscape on the new Opera 8 browser. The new applications and entertainment content features include:

• Details on supported push email partners
• Anti-virus/Firewall and VPN clients for secure corporate business
• Business card scanner
• New entertainment content and features

For full release click here: http://www.symbian.com/news/cn/2006/cn20063395.html

Symbian estimates that approximately 35% of 3G phones shipped in 2005 were based on Symbian OS. By the end of 2005, 23 Symbian OS 3G phones were shipping globally.

About Symbian Ltd

Symbian is a software licensing company that develops and licenses Symbian OS, the market leading open operating system for advanced, data-enabled mobile phones also known as smartphones.

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 mobile phones were sold worldwide to over 250 network operators, bringing the total number of Symbian OS phones shipped to almost 48million.

Symbian has its headquarters in London, United Kingdom with offices in the United States, Europe (England and Sweden (UIQ Technology AB)), Israel and Asia (India, P.R. China, Korea, and Japan).

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