Symbian welcomes the availability of Nokia’s 9300, the first U.S. business device to feature BlackBerry Connect™

March 29, 2006 – Symbian Ltd. today welcomed the availability of Nokia’s Symbian OS™-based Nokia 9300, the first business device on a US operator network with BlackBerry Connect™.

The Nokia 9300 is now available in the U.S. through Cingular Wireless and features the popular BlackBerry® wireless services via the BlackBerry Connect licensing program from Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM).

In addition to offering the BlackBerry Connect e-mail solution, the Nokia 9300 device is also compatible with several third-party applications to provide individuals and businesses of all sizes with a comprehensive wireless solution operating on EDGE, the largest and fastest national wireless data network in America. EDGE is available in 13,000 cities and towns, and along more than 40,000 miles of major highways in the U.S.

The Nokia 9300 can be purchased online at: http://www.cingular.com/nokia9300_success

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 2005, 34 million Symbian OS mobile phones were sold worldwide to over 250 network operators, bringing the total number of Symbian OS phones shipped to almost 60 million.

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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