Symbian OS Phone Shipments Reach 10 million in Japan

TOKYO, Japan – 12 July 2006 – Symbian Ltd. today announced that Symbian OS™, the market leading open operating system for advanced, data-enabled mobile phones, also known as smartphones, shipped in over 10 million mobile phones in Japan up until the end of May 2006.

The very first Symbian OS phones shipped in Japan in 2003 from Fujitsu; the FOMA F2051 followed by the FOMA F2102. A total of 6 Symbian OS based models had been shipped in Japan from Fujitsu and Nokia in 2004, 14 models from Fujitsu, Nokia, Mitsubishi, Sharp, and Motorola in 2005, and to date 35 models from 6 handset vendors including Sony Ericsson have shipped in total.

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Haruhiko Hisa, President, Symbian Co. Ltd said, “This significant achievement was driven by the remarkable growth of the advanced 3G mobile phone market in Japan, NTT DoCoMo’s selection of Symbian OS as a common software development platform for its 3G FOMA network and the fact that Symbian OS, as an open mobile operating system, reduces time to market.”
Symbian will continue to focus on enabling applications and services that meet the demands of mobile phone users by working together with network operators, handset manufacturers, and partners in Japan”, added Hisa.

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About Symbian

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. At the end of Q1 2006 70.5 million Symbian OS phones had been shipped by licensees worldwide to over 250 major network operators.

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).

For further information about Symbian please see Symbian

The following 35 Symbian OS-based mobile phones have shipped in Japan:

• NTT DoCoMo FOMA F902iS; FOMA F702iD; 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); FOMA D702iBCL; FOMA D902iS; MUSIC PORTER X; FOMA D702i; Music Porter II; Raku-Raku PHONE Simple; FOMA D902i; FOMA D701i; FOMA D901iS; FOMA D901i (manufactured by Mitsubishi Electric); FOMA M1000 (manufactured by Motorola); FOMA SH902iSL; FOMA SH 902iS; FOMA SH702iD; FOMA SH902i (manufactured by Sharp); FOMA NM850iG (manufactured by Nokia); FOMA SO902iWP+; FOMA SO702i; FOMA SO902i (manufactured by Sony Ericsson)
• Vodafone 702NKII (Nokia 6680); Vodafone 702NK (Nokia 6630) (manufactured by Nokia)

Media Enquiries

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

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

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