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20 Million Symbian Phones in Japan
As mentioned in Symbian's Q1 figures more than 20 million phones running on Symbian OS have now been shipped in Japan (that's around 16% of total Symbian shipments). There's an amusing, 'Boo Hoo for You', cartoon available on YouTube (embedded in the full story) celebrating this milestone. Two cartoon characters remind us that Japan remains the cutting edge market - smellphones, biometrics and mobile wallets are all the rage!Posted by Rafe Blandford at 13:16 UTC, May 16th || 1 Comment
Symbian Q1 Results - 15.9 million phones shipped
Symbian have released their Q1 2007 figures, highlights include a total of 15.9 million phones shipped in the first 3 months of the year, cumulative shipments of 126.4 million and cumulative shipments in Japan of 20 million Symbian OS phones.Posted by Rafe Blandford at 11:16 UTC, May 16th || 1 Comment
Three Symbian Phones in FOMA 904i Series
NTT DoCoMo today unveiled its FOMA 904i Series and three out of five of these phones run MOAP on Symbian OS. The D904i (Mitsubishi) features an accelerometer, the F904i (Fujitsu) has a tilting screen for Mobile TV and the the SH904i (Sharp) has a 6 colour filter screen for improved outdoors viewing. Each also supports a comprehensive range of services.Posted by Rafe Blandford at 14:04 UTC, April 23rd || 2 Comments
Symbian reach 50 in Japan
Symbian's success story in Japan continues with the launch of the 50th handset to feature their MOAP platform and interface. The FOMA D903iTV is made by Mitsubishi and is available immediately. The Symbian press release follows.
Posted by Steve Litchfield at 10:03 UTC, February 16th || 0 Comments
Symbian worldwide smartphone share up to 67%
What a busy time (but perhaps an appropriate one) to divulge a mass of stats from the smartphone world. Canalys' latest report shows that 64 million smartphones shipped worldwide in 2006. Symbian's world market share was up to 67%, of which Nokia accounted for 50% and Sony Ericsson 5%.Posted by Steve Litchfield at 20:54 UTC, February 11th || 1 Comment
Next Gen software platform for Symbian phones in Japan
NTT DoCoMo, Renesas, Fujitsu, Mitsubishi, Sharp, and Sony Ericsson today announced that they plan to jointly develop a next-generation mobile phone platform based on the SH-Mobile G3, a single-chip system solution for mobile devices. The platform will include software for basic operations and an advanced OS (such as Symbian). In addition to the Japanese market Renesas also plans to make the platform available to the worldwide WCDMA market.
Posted by Rafe Blandford at 15:57 UTC, February 8th || 0 Comments
F703i and D703i start shipping
NTT DoCoMo started shipping the D703i (Mitsubishi) and the F703i (Fujitsu) phones yesterday. The phones run on MOAP on Symbian and are only available on NTT DoCoMo's FOMA network in Japan. They take the total number of phone models based on Symbian OS shipping in Japan to 47 .Posted by Rafe Blandford at 14:35 UTC, February 3rd
D800iDS - dual screen MOAP on Symbian phone for Japan
The D800iDS from Mitsubishi is the worlds first dual internal screen clamshell. It is for the Japanese market and runs on NTT DoCoMo's FOMA network. The phone has two screens - a normal QVGA screen on the upper half, a QVGA touch panel display on the bottom half of the phone (reminiscent of the Nintendo DS). The touch panel is used to control the phone with on screen buttons and controls.Posted by Rafe Blandford at 19:44 UTC, January 19th || 2 Comments
6 new MOAP on Symbian OS phones for NTT DoCoMo
NTT DoCoMo recently announced its latest series of phones, among the 10 announced are 6 phone powered by MOAP on Symbian OS (the others are MOAP on Linux). They include the D703i (Mitsubishi), F703i (Fujitsu), SH703i (Sharp), SO703i (Sony Ericsson), D800iDS (Mitsubishi) and SO903iTV (Sony Ericsson). The NTT DoCoMo phones continue to push the boundaries, this sets includes phones that are waterproof (F703i), with dual internal screens (D800iDS) and a BRAVIA branded TV phone (SO903iTV).Posted by Rafe Blandford at 18:14 UTC, January 19th || 1 Comment
NTT DoCoMo announce 7 more Symbian phones
NTT DoCoMo recently announced its new 903i range of 3G FOMA phones. Seven out eleven run on Symbian OS, the D703i, F903i, SH903i, SO903i, D903iTV, SH903iTV and F903iX. New to the 903i series is out of the box support for the WMA format for music (inlcuding DRM), support for DoCoMo's DCMX™ mobile credit card and IC cards with triple the storage of conventional cards. Some of the handsets support the new Keitai-Osagashi Service (GPS) service which adds an additional range of location based services.Posted by Rafe Blandford at 14:10 UTC, October 15th || 0 Comments
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