Symbian welcomes Nokia’s new sleek low-cost and sporty device

The Nokia 5500 Sport: Smartphone with a six-pack

May 10, 2006 – Symbian Ltd. today welcomed the Nokia 5500 Sport featuring all the technology that every active-minded consumer needs.

The Nokia 5500 Sport, based on S60 3rd Edition and Symbian OS, version 9.1 has a single button to activate the three dedicated "modes" - a phone mode to stay in touch, the music mode (that can hold up to 750 tracks), and sports mode (with integrated pedometer to monitor distance walked or calories burnt). In addition, the Nokia 5500 Sport also offers "text-to-speech" technology, reading out text messages as they are received or to let you monitor distance walked or calories burnt when in sports mode.

The triband Nokia 5500 Sport (GSM 900/1800/1900) is scheduled to ship into stores during the summer (3rd quarter) of 2006 and is expected to retail for around 300 EUR before taxes and subsidies.

For full release click here: Nokia 5500 Sport: Smartphone with a six-pack

About Nokia

Nokia is a world leader in mobile communications, driving the growth and sustainability of the broader mobility industry. Nokia connects people to each other and the information that matters to them with easy-to-use and innovative products like mobile phones, devices and solutions for imaging, games, media and businesses. Nokia provides equipment, solutions and services for network operators and corporations.

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).