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WirelessDevNet.com Press Release
Symbian OS Applications Sales Double in First Half 2004Through Handango And Its Channel Partners
Symbian Expo, London, UK – – Symbian Limited today announced at Symbian Expo - the smartphone show dedicated entirely to the smartphone industry - that Symbian OS™ applications are the most successful smartphone applications on Handango, the leading provider of mobile downloads for phones and handhelds. Furthermore, Handango’s Symbian OS application sales increased more than 100% compared to the first half of 2003. The average customer bought 18% more applications for Symbian OS mobile phones than the average customer for other leading mobile OSs.
Symbian develops and licenses Symbian OS, the leading operating system that powers the most popular smartphones. As a Platinum Partner, Handango continues to support Symbian's ecosystem of developers, partners and licensees by delivering thousands of Symbian OS applications to customers through its market-leading application management and provisioning platform, Handango AMPP. In addition to its own portal, www.handango.com, Handango provides the Sony Ericsson Application Shop and the Symbian download portals for My-Symbian, Yahoo!, Cingular Wireless, AOL and localized versions of the Handango-branded portal for Germany, France and the United Kingdom. All sales figures are based upon aggregate sales across the Handango channel network.
In 2004, the number of third party applications for Symbian OS available on Handango increased by over 80%. Handango customers bought more applications on average for Symbian OS phones per order than any other OS and these applications had the second highest average selling price (ASP) for any OS. These statistics demonstrate the value that Symbian OS applications and phones bring to their users. In Q1 and Q22004, the Sony Ericsson P800 /P900 smartphone was the top phone for application purchases. The Nokia 7650/3650 and 6600 were also included in the top five phones for application purchases on Handango.
Handango
"Handango is dedicated to providing mobile operators and device manufacturers with the technology that enables successful distribution of Symbian OS applications,” said Randy Eisenman, president and chief executive officer of Handango. “We are delighted to be involved in driving the success of Symbian OS.”
Symbian
"We are very pleased by the continued success of Symbian OS applications sales,” said Marit Døving, EVP Marketing, Symbian. “The explosive growth and demand for third party applications based on Symbian OS is further validation of Symbian’s unique position to add value and create commercial opportunities for both the Symbian ecosystem and the wider mobile industry.”
About Symbian Expo – the smartphone show
Symbian's sixth annual Expo is the only event dedicated entirely to the global smartphone industry. It covers every aspect of the smartphone market, from building mobile phones themselves to developing and deploying applications to mobile phone users and takes place at the ExCel Centre in London, UK, on 5th and 6th October 2004.
www.symbianexpo.com
About Symbian
Symbian is a software licensing company that develops and licenses Symbian OS, the global open industry standard operating system for advanced, data-enabled mobile phones. Symbian licenses Symbian OS to the world's leading handset manufacturers. The following Symbian OS licensees have Symbian OS-based mobile phones in production and development: Arima, BenQ, Fujitsu for NTT DoCoMo FOMA, LG, Lenovo, Motorola, Nokia, Panasonic, Sendo, Siemens, Samsung and Sony Ericsson. In 2003, over 6.67 million Symbian OS-based mobile phones were sold worldwide and more than 15 million have been sold to date. Symbian has its headquarters in London, United Kingdom with offices in the United States, Europe and Asia (Bangalore, Beijing, Seoul and Tokyo).
www.symbian.com
press@symbian.com
About Handango
Handango is the leading provider of mobile downloads bringing over 50,000 applications and 25,000 digital media titles to market through an extensive global distribution network that reaches millions of mobile users. Handango's application management and provisioning platform, Handango AMPP, has been chosen as the mobile software delivery platform for Nokia, Motorola, Sprint, Verizon Wireless, Cingular Wireless, T-Mobile, Orange SA, Sony Ericsson, palmOne, Microsoft, HP, Sega Mobile, AOL and more than 100 others.
www.handango.com
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