Mobile Development News

Symbian Ltd. said its operating results for the first half of 2004 show global shipments of Symbian OS-based phones nearly doubled to 5 million, as compared to the first half of 2003 when 2.7 million units were shipped.

Six months into this year, six Symbian OS licensees were shipping 23 Symbian OS products to operators in Japan and other GSM/GPRS territories worldwide. In all, 34 phones based on the Symbian platform were under development by 10 licensees. Those include GSM/GPRS 2.5G products, W-CDMA 3G phones, regionally segmented products and market segment-targeted devices.

The entire smartphone market is booming, but Symbian is remaining in the lead with heavy unit sales increases while still gaining in market share.

RCR Wireless News

Other links about Symbian growth (it's quite the news item):

Tech Digest

Symbian revenues, device sales rise | The Register

InSourced - Global mobile market explodes News Site

Smart phone shipments do well in Q2 - silicon.com

SymbianOne - The Wireless & Mobile Developer Portal for Symbian OS, series 60, and UIQ device users and developers

TheFeature :: Symbian Rolling Along

Scotsman.com Business - Technology - Shipments soar at Symbian

CommsDesign - Symbian-based phone shipments increase 85%, vendor claims

And the following article presents these easy to read statistics about the market as a whole:

# Overall worldwide mobile device market in Q2 2004 up 45 percent on Q2 2003 # Data-centric devices (handhelds/wireless handhelds) up 26 percent # Voice-centric devices (smart phones/feature phones) up 70 percent # Nokia is leader overall, and in voice-centric segment # PalmOne leads in data-centric devices, but share falls, and HP and RIM are growing quickly

Global mobile device market shows "tremendous growth"