Symbian sales fell from 2.76 million in the last quarter of 2003 to 2.4 million in the first of this year.Because handset sales are seasonal, this translates into a flat market share of 1.9 percent, but is disappointing in a market where handheld sales are soaring. The licence fee per phone also dropped, however, from £3.95 to £3.63. For all of it's increase in its, the company is not making as much money as it should be. Symbian wants more handsets that use it's OS to target mid-range handsets: Symbian wants handset vendors (and not just Nokia) to launch more phones based on its OS, in the mid-range where it is not necessarily the first choice. It also wants more deals like the one where telco NTT DoCoMo mandated the platform for its next generation phones. And it wants vendors to pick up its version 8.0 software with its promise of cheaper, smaller phones. |
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