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.

Telefónica Móviles España

“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.

Symbian

“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.