Here's the press release:
Symbian enters 3G market with Fujitsu and NTT DoCoMo
London, United Kingdom - December 10th, 2002 - Symbian Ltd. today
announces that its licensee Fujitsu has completed development of a
Symbian OS smartphone for NTT DoCoMo's FOMA 3G network. Fujitsu will
begin volume shipments to NTT DoCoMo shortly.
This is the first Symbian OS smartphone to be launched in Japan and is
also the first Symbian OS 3G smartphone. The product marks an
impressive step forward with an enhanced graphical user interface,
still and movie camera, email capability as well as advanced PIM
applications. This product is the result of close co-operation
between Symbian and Fujitsu both to create a Symbian OS user interface
for the Japanese language as well to optimize Symbian OS for NTT
DoCoMo's 3G FOMA network.
"We are delighted that Fujitsu has completed its product development
for NTT DoCoMo. This is the first 3G Symbian OS smartphone and the
first Symbian OS product to be launched in Japan. Fujitsu has been an
outstanding partner and has used the flexibility of the Symbian OS to
the full to create this highly differentiated product. Symbian OS
licensees account for more than 80% of worldwide mobile phone sales
(1) and with Symbian OS products now being launched for the 3G
market, Symbian is the de facto industry standard operating system for
2.5 and 3G smartphones. Symbian OS enables manufacturers and network
operators to offer their customers a choice of strongly
differentiated, feature-rich smartphones that can access compelling
applications, content and services," said David Levin, CEO, Symbian
Ltd.
(1) Source: Gartner Dataquest (November 2002) "Worldwide Mobile
Terminal Market Shares 3Q02."
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Received on Tue Dec 10 13:04:55 2002