Symbian Limited today released unaudited financial and operational figures for the second quarter and the six months ended 30th June 2005.

Symbian receives a royalty on each phone based on Symbian OS shipped by licensees. From Symbian OS v7.0 onwards, the royalty has been set at $7.25 per unit for the first 2 million units shipped by a licensee and $5 per unit thereafter.

• Q2 2005 shipments of Symbian OS phones triple year on year to reach 7.8m (Q2 2004 - 2.6m).
  
• Total shipments of Symbian OS phones for the first half of the year totalled 14.5m (H1 2004: 5.0m units), a half-year on half-year increase of 191%.
  
• More Symbian OS phones shipped in H1 2005 than in the whole of 2004.
  
• 54 separate Symbian OS phone models shipping worldwide from seven licensees (H1 2004 – 23 phone models, 6 licensees).
  
• 18 new Symbian OS phone models commenced shipping in first half from Fujitsu, Mitsubishi, Motorola, Nokia and Panasonic.
  
• Symbian OS worldwide installed base reaches more than 39 million phones.
  
• 16 phones of the 54 Symbian OS phones shipping are designed for 3G W-CDMA networks deployed in Europe and in Japan.
  
• In addition, 50 Symbian OS phone models are under development by 11 licensees  (end of H1 2004, 34 phones & variants and 10 licensees).
  
• 4,122 third party applications for Symbian OS phones commercially are now available, up 64% (end H1 2004 – 2,512 applications)