Telefónica Móviles España selects Symbian OS for future roll-out of smartphones and services

London, UK – 8 February 2007 – Symbian Limited today announced a collaboration with Telefonica Móviles España to reinforce the role of Symbian OS™ in Telefónica’s mobile device portfolio. Symbian OS is the market leading operating system for smartphones.

The collaboration will enable Telefonica Móviles España to offer new mobile devices and services more quickly to its customers by increasing the use of S60 and UIQ on Symbian OS as respective software platforms for mobile handsets worldwide.

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“Selecting Symbian OS as a common technology platform across our phone range will help us reduce handset deployment costs, improve time-to-market for new service delivery and allow us to more easily deliver compelling content,” said Carlos Melendo, senior manager, handsets and smartcards, Telefónica Móviles España.

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“Teléfonica’s selection of Symbian OS for its future phones and services strategy is another important step forward for Symbian and our licensees,” said Andy Brannan, executive vice president of sales and customer operations, Symbian. “This collaboration will create additional revenue for the Symbian ecosystem that includes the biggest handset manufacturers, solution partners and developers. Telefónica will be able to ‘develop once, use often’, a key network operator benefit for choosing a platform based on Symbian OS, which provides a competitive advantage in a fast moving market.”

Symbian has shipped over 100 million smartphones worldwide and currently has over 100 different device models shipping in various regions from the world’s leading handset manufacturers including Nokia, Motorola, Samsung and Sony Ericsson.

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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 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 Q3 2006, 13 million Symbian smartphones were sold worldwide to over 250 major network operators. To date, more than 100 million Symbian smartphones have shipped cumulatively.

Symbian has its headquarters in London, United Kingdom, with offices in the United States, England, Israel and Asia (India, P.R. China, Korea and Japan). Symbian

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