Symbian welcomes the Samsung SGH-i520

The Symbian Smartphone Show, London, UK, 17 October 2006 - Symbian today welcomed the launch of the SGH-i520, the latest Symbian smartphone manufactured by Samsung.

The new HSDPA smartphone i520 is based on Symbian OS v9 and S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 1. The slim slider phone has an HSDPA radio and browser enabling Internet access and content download speeds up to five times faster than other smartphones. It has an attractive design and comes with a convenient and sophisticated touch pad providing short-cuts to key phone functions.

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Andy Brannan, executive vice-president, sales and customer operations, Symbian, said, "The Samsung i520 elegantly combines an attractive slim smartphone with high-speed Internet access providing consumers with a new level of interaction and immediacy for information and entertainment. We welcome the i520 to our family of Symbian OS v9 smartphones and look forward to more from Samsung in the future."

Symbian develops and licenses Symbian OS, the market leading open operating system for advanced, data-enabled mobile phones, also known as smartphones, to the world's leading handset manufacturers including Arima, Ben Q Siemens, Fujitsu, Lenovo, LG Electronics, Motorola, Mitsubishi, Nokia, Samsung, Sharp, and Sony Ericsson. During H1 2006, 24 million Symbian smartphones were sold worldwide to over 250 major network operators, bringing the total number of Symbian OS phones shipped to 82.8 million.

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