Symbian keep going up

Today Symbian, the most popular OS for smartphones, announced a pretty strong quarter, with 58 percent growth on shipments year over year, it was 24m Symbian device shipped over the first half of 2006, a big stake of this sales are based on Nokia’s phones which uses the OS for almost all its line of products. A total of 86 symbian based phones are currently available worldwide.

Here in Brazil the number of Symbian phones are growing but very, very slowly, the main reason is because the number of smartphones available in the market and it’s price tag, they are a lot more expensive than a Motorola RazR, the most popular phone in the market right now (black, pink, silver, etc). Brazilian market is still in the kindergarten when it comes to smartphones, it’s a very niched and specific public and the manufacturers are focusing mostly in the volume that the cheap and fashion models can drive.

The only company that uses extensively symbian phones down here is Nokia. Following the same strategy worldwide.

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