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Symbian 2006 - Highlights and Financials Print E-mail
Written by Symbian   
Tuesday, 13 February 2007
Symbian Limited, developer and licensor of Symbian OS™, the market-leading operating system for advanced, data-enabled mobile phones known as smartphones, has released unaudited financial and operational figures for both Q4 2006 and the full year ended 31 December 2006.

Highlights - Full year 2006

  • 51.7 million Symbian smartphones shipped to consumers worldwide in 2006 - a 52% increase on 2005 (2005: 34.0m)
  • 108 Symbian smartphone models shipping from 9 licensees through over 250 major network operators worldwide at 31 December 2006 (2005: 60 models) - an 80% increase on 2005
  • 65 new Symbian smartphones models commenced shipment in 2006 (2005: 36), 38 (58%) of these models were based on Symbian OS v9, 34 (53%) for use on W-CDMA (3G) networks in Japan and Europe, 19 (29%) Wi-Fi enabled
  • 110 million cumulative Symbian smartphone shipments since the formation of Symbian to 31 December 2006
  • Symbian announced Symbian OS v9.3 optimized for convergence and market segmentation with performance and feature enhancements, which will begin shipping in devices in 2007

Highlights - Q4 2006

  • 14.6 million Symbian smartphones shipped by licensees in Q4 2006 - a 34% increase on Q4 2005 (Q4 2005 - 10.9m)
  • In Q4 2006, Symbian OS was used in products in many segments and geographical markets - for example: Nokia E50, Sony Ericsson P990c and Sony Ericsson Walkman W958c in China; Sony Ericsson Walkman W950i, Nokia E61 and Nokia N92 in Europe as well as several NTT DoCoMo™ devices for the Japanese market such as FOMA™ SO903i manufactured by Sony Ericsson, FOMA SH903i manufactured by Sharp, FOMA F903i manufactured by Fujitsu and FOMA D903i manufactured by Mitsubishi Electric
  • New Symbian OS v9 models announced in Q4 2006 but not shipping as of the end of 2006, include the Samsung SGH-i520, LG JoY and Nokia 6290
  • 6,896 third party Symbian applications are now commercially available, a 50% increase on 31 December 2005 (4,588 applications) (Source: Symbian research, see Notes to Editors)
51.7m Symbian smartphones shipped in 2006

Symbian Limited Q4 2006 results

Q4 2006 Q4 2005 Q3 2006
Symbian OS Units 14.6m 10.9m 13.0m
Average Royalty / Unit US$5.1 US$5.2 US$5.2
Royalty GP% 93% 86% 93%
Revenue (£’m)
Royalties 40.4 30.7 37.3
Consulting Services 3.5 2.9 2.3
Partnering & Other 1.0 1.0 0.7
Total 44.9 34.6 40.3

End Q4 2006 End Q3 2006 End Q4 2005 Q4YoY
% change
Number of Symbian smartphone models in the market 108 106 60 +80%
Number of licensees with Symbian smartphones in the market 9 10 10
Number of Symbian smartphone models in development 56 49 58
Number of licensees with Symbian smartphones in development 8 8 9

Symbian Limited Q4 2006 results - Unaudited Financial and Operational Highlights

2006 2005 2004 2003
Symbian OS Units 51.7m 34.0m 14.4m 6.7m
Average Royalty / Unit US$5.30 US$5.14 US$5.72 US$6.24
Royalty GP% 91% 85% 84% 84%
Revenue (£’m)
Royalties 151.1 96.1 45.2 25.5
Consulting Services 10.7 14.8 17.5 17.1
Partnering & Other 3.4 3.9 3.8 2.8
Total 165.2 114.8 66.5 45.4
 


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