While Apple and Google attract all the attention, Symbian keeps chugging along in the background. The company says that 20.4 million smartphones running its OS shipped in the third quarter of 2007 That’s up 56% over the same quarter a year earlier, and means a cumulative total of 165 million Symbian devices have been sold.
One interesting footnote comes from Japan, where in the first six months of the year, 65% of the handsets sold by NTT DoCoMo were powered by Symbian (with the MOAP interface on top). Given DoCoMo’s longstanding support for Symbian (as well as its penchant for locking down handsets), it could be fun to see how Android-based handsets fare there. When they come out. In the second half of 2008. Supposedly.
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