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15.9m Symbian smartphones shipped in Q1 2007 Print E-mail
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Wednesday, 16 May 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 its unaudited financial and operational figures for the quarter ended 31 March 2007.

Total cumulative shipments reach 126.4m

Chief Executive Commentary

Nigel Clifford, Chief Executive Officer, Symbian Ltd said:

"Symbian continued to lead the smartphone market in Q1 2007, with 16 million Symbian smartphones shipping worldwide, bringing the total shipment of Symbian smartphones since the Company's formation to over 126 million.

Global Success
Symbian continued its global success with a sustained market share of 72% of the smartphone market during Q1 and new, innovative Symbian smartphones launched in the US, Europe and Asia. In Q1 2007 25 per cent of Symbian OS unit shipments were in Japan and 13 per cent in China. In January 2007, Symbian held the official opening of an expanded Beijing office to support Symbian OS licensees and the growing Chinese developer base.

As a global leader, Symbian is committed to providing a product fit for diverse regional market requirements, offering extensive customization options and supporting global technology standards as well as languages from 99% of the world's countries.

20 million Symbian smartphone shipments in Japan to date
I am delighted that Symbian has passed a significant milestone of 20 million unit shipments cumulatively in Japan. The first 3G phone based on Symbian OS shipped in Japan in 2003 and since then 54 Symbian OS-based models have shipped in many market segments, manufactured by Fujitsu, Mitsubishi, Motorola, Nokia, Sharp, and Sony Ericsson.

It took three years to reach the first 10 million Symbian smartphones and less than one year to reach the next 10 million. This growth was driven by remarkable innovation from the advanced 3G mobile market in Japan, as well as the flexible and sophisticated capabilities of Symbian OS that reduce time-to-market and meet the high standards of handset vendors and network operators.

Symbian OS v9.5 announced for high performance and mass market
At CTIA 2007, we launched the latest evolution of our product, Symbian OS v9.5. Fully backward compatible with all versions of the v9 family, Symbian OS v9.5 offers over 70 new features as well as performance improvements with reductions in requirements on memory, processor and battery, enabling future Symbian smartphones to run on feature-phone hardware.

Symbian OS v9.5 has many new enterprise features including improved synchronization and support for a large number of contacts using a SQL database. In addition, seamless multi-tasking, uninterrupted VoIP, and automatic switching between 3G and Wi-Fi, offer superior productivity for business professionals.

Powering best-in-class multimedia
Multimedia capability is a priority for Symbian as it is essential to entice the large and dynamic youth market. New Symbian smartphones with extraordinary multimedia capabilities announced or commenced shipping during Q1 2007, include:

  • Nokia N77 based on S60, a stylish and affordable device with integrated DVB-H for an optimized mobile TV experience
  • MOTORIZR Z8 based on UIQ, the world's first 'kick-slider' design with industry-leading high definition video playback and HSDPA
  • Nokia N95 based on S60, features a pioneering 2-way slide concept, integrated GPS, a 5 megapixel camera and HSDPA
  • FOMATM F903iX HIGH-SPEED based on MOAP, a QVGA swinging TFT LCD 2.4-inch display with HSDPA and H.264 video playback capability

Symbian OS v9.5 will power even richer multimedia experiences with integrated support for multi-standard digital TV, media protocols, and 35 new camera features. Symbian OS v9.5 also enables seamless connectivity and best-in-class power management fundamental to the mass market multimedia experience.

Delivering faster time-to-market
In Q1 07 Symbian underlined its commitment to reducing time-to-market for the ecosystem through:

  • Operator platform commitments: In Q1 2007, Telefónica Móviles España, T-Mobile and Telecom Italia announced their choice of a platform based on Symbian OS. They join Vodafone, Orange and NTT DoCoMo in sharing the benefits of reduced time-to-market for new service delivery, scalability, and cost reduction
  • Compatibility: Symbian is delivering on its promise of compatibility across v9.x releases, resulting in strong growth of S60 and UIQ applications based on Symbian OS v9
  • More choice of development environments: Symbian launched P.I.P.S (P.I.P.S. is POSIX on Symbian OS) in January 2007 as part of our ongoing investment to bring more developers to mobile with a choice of familiar environments and fast porting of existing assets.

Symbian Outlook
We are seeing two significant areas of new smartphone growth in addition to the established multimedia and enterprise markets: emerging economies and mass market segments. Both have stringent requirements for security, high performance, extended differentiation, long battery life, and low cost. Through deep collaboration with Symbian OS licensees, support of a thriving ecosystem and development of market-leading multimedia, graphics and connectivity solutions, Symbian is driving the market, enabling even richer experiences at lower cost.

We look forward to continued growth in adoption of Symbian OS through 2007. We will see a continuation of innovative devices across a range of segments from the world's leading handset vendors, who have all launched or are developing phones on Symbian OS v9."

Highlights - Q1 2007

  • 15.9m Symbian smartphones shipped by licensees in Q1 2007, a 35.9% increase on Q1 2006 (Q1 2006 - 11.7m)
  • 126 million cumulative Symbian smartphone unit shipments, as of 31 March 2007
  • 20 million cumulative Symbian smartphone unit shipments milestone reached in Japan since first 3G Symbian model shipped in 2003. All models shipped since have been 3G.
  • 14 new Symbian smartphone models commenced shipment in Q1 2007: 12 models were 3G enabled and eight models were for the Japanese market, launched in diverse segments including business, mobile TV, music, fashion, sport
  • New Symbian smartphone models which were announced in Q1 2007 but were not shipping as of 31 March 2007 include the MOTORIZR Z8, the Nokia 5700 XpressMusic, the Nokia 6110 Navigator, and Eseries devices for the enterprise: the Nokia E90 and the Nokia E61i
  • Symbian announced the latest evolution of its product, Symbian OS v9.5, which brings high performance features designed for richer consumer and enterprise experiences as well as significant savings to phone build costs and time-to-market
  • Symbian increased investment to further accelerate product development and regional growth
  • At 3GSM in February 2007, Telefónica Móviles España, T-Mobile and Telecom Italia announced their choice of a platform based on Symbian OS1. They join Vodafone, Orange and NTT DoCoMo in sharing the benefits of reduced time-to-market for new service delivery, scalability, and cost reduction.
  • 7,478 third party Symbian applications are commercially available, as of 31 March 2007, up 58% (Q1 2006 - 4,735 applications) (Source: Symbian research, see Notes to Editors)
  • The sale to Sony Ericsson of UIQ Technology AB and intellectual property rights in the UIQ user interface were completed

Symbian Limited Q1 2007 results

Q1 2007 Q4 2006 Q1 2006 Q1 YoY% change
Symbian OS Units 15.9m 14.6m 11.7m +35.9%
Average Royalty / Unit US$4.5 US$5.1 US$5.4
Royalty GP% 93% 93% 88%
Revenue (£’m)
Royalties 37.9 40.4 35.5
Consulting Services 2.5 3.5 2.5
Partnering & Other 0.9 1.0 0.8
Total 41.3 44.9 38.8
End Q1 2007 End Q4 2006 End Q1 2006 Q1 YoY% change
Number of Symbian smartphone models in the market 114 108 66 +73%
Number of licensees with Symbian smartphones in the market 8 9 10
Number of Symbian smartphone models in development 63 56 56
Number of licensees with Symbian smartphones in development 8 8 9

Royalties comprise Symbian OS & UIQ (up to completion of sale of UIQ on 2 February 2007)

 

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