14 DAY TRIAL // Symbian, the British-based mobile phone software maker, stated on Thursday that shipments of its smart phone software have tripled in the last few months.
The company, whose software powers computer-like mobile handsets, stated that the operating system covered 7.8 million phones. That's pretty impressive, considering that last year, the software systems were installed only on 2.6 million phones.
The first quarter of 2005 wasn't that bad either: they sold about 6.75 million operating systems. First semester shipments total led to 14.5 million, a 191% increase since last year. That means more phones with Symbian's operating system were shipped in the first half of 2005 than the total of 2004.
Symbian was set up by British portable computer pioneer Psion and few of the world's biggest mobile phone manufacturers. Psion withdrew last year and Finland's mobile phone maker Nokia owns just under percent of the shares.