Symbian released the following unaudited financial and operational figures for the second quarter and the six months ended 30th June 2004
H1 2004 Operational Highlights
- Global shipments of Symbian OS-based phones grew to 5.0m (H1 2003: 2.7m units) in H1 2004, a year-on-year increase of 85%, bringing the total installed base of Symbian OS phones to more than 15 million.
- At the end of H1 2004, six Symbian OS licensees were shipping a total of 23 Symbian OS products to network operators in Japan and throughout GSM / GPRS territories worldwide
- During H1 2004, Symbian OS licensees announced products targeted at a wide range of mobile networks, geographical markets and customer segments:
- W-CDMA, 3G products for European and Japanese network operators including Nokia 6630, FOMA F900i, F900iT and Motorola A1000
- GSM / GPRS, 2.5G products included Arima ASP 805, BenQ P31, Nokia 7610 and Nokia 6260, Panasonic X700, Samsung SGH-D710, Sony Ericsson P910
- Products and variants for specific regional markets such as Siemens SX1c and Sony Ericsson P910c for Chinese markets; Sony Ericsson P910a, Nokia 6620 for North and Latin American EDGE and 850MHz networks
- Market segment-targeted devices such as Nokia's QD game deck and the Nokia 9500 Communicator for enterprise markets
- Three new Symbian OS licensees were announced during the first half of 2004
- LG Electronics, the world's fifth largest mobile phone manufacturer
- Arima, a leading Taiwanese manufacturer of mobile terminals
- Lenovo, formerly known as the Legend Group, the largest IT corporation in China
- Commercially available third party applications for Symbian OS phones rose to 2,954 (end H1 2003 - 1,323 applications)
- £50m rights issue completed to fund accelerated development focused on enhancing Symbian OS as a platform for lower cost, mid-range phones
- annualised cost base to rise from c.£70m to c.£100m within 18 months
- headcount to rise from c.900 to c.1,200 full-time and contract employees worldwide.
David Levin, Chief Executive Officer, Symbian Ltd said:
"Symbian has performed in line with our expectations in the first half of 2004 with five million phones using Symbian OS being shipped to network operators worldwide, taking the installed base of Symbian OS phones to more than 15 million.
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