Tune into the Smartphone Radio

Symbian releases special series of interviews with leading mobile visionaries

London, UK, 10 October 2006 – One week ahead of the largest global smartphone dedicated event, the Symbian Smartphone Show, Symbian is pleased to invite you to tune into Smartphone Radio to hear Mike Southon, best-selling business author and technology commentator speaking to some of the industry's leading mobile visionaries.

Mike has interviewed some of the most influential proponents of the smartphone industry to unearth their views on how smartphones are changing lives and to find out where the market is heading. These include interviews with: wireless executive and entrepreneur, David Hytha; Shannon Maher, Google; Jussi Wacklin, Nokia; Matthias Hilpert, Orange; Eric Lagier, Skype; Graeme Ferguson, Vodafone; Ed Moore, WiderWeb; Bill Sullivan, Sky; Tony Fish, AMF Ventures; Ray Anderson, Bango; technology critic, Bill Thompson; and senior executives from Symbian.

Mike Southon who will be also moderating this year’s keynotes at the Symbian Smartphone Show (for full details of the keynotes visit www.symbiansmartphoneshow.com) at Excel on 17-18 October 2006 is co-author with Chris West of best-selling business books The Beermat Entrepreneur, The Boardroom Entrepreneur, Sales on a Beermat and Finance on a Beermat. He also writes for the Financial Times, Real Business Magazine, Director and many other publications and is a keynote speaker and conference facilitator at events around the world.

Smartphone radio is now available on the Symbian website. To listen or download, please visit: www.symbian.com/smartphoneradio. Should you wish to speak to any of these interviewees, please contact press@symbian.com.

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About Symbian Limited
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. During H1 2006, 24 million Symbian OS phones were sold worldwide to over 250 major network operators, bringing the total number of Symbian OS phones shipped to 82.8 million.

Symbian is hosting The Symbian Smartphone Show, 17-18 October 2006, at EXCEL, in London, UK. For more information or to register or visit: www.symbiansmartphoneshow.com

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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