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2005 Shipments Total 33.9m
BARCELONA, 3GSM World Congress and LONDON, February 14 // --
Symbian Limited, developer and licensor of Symbian OS(TM), the market-leading
operating system for advanced, data-enabled mobile phones today released the
following unaudited financial and operational figures for both Q4 2005 and
the full year ended 31 December 2005.
Highlights - Full year 2005
- 2005 full year shipments of phones based on Symbian OS totalled 33.9m
(2004 - 14.4m); year on year growth of 136%, the fourth consecutive year in
which Symbian OS phone shipments have grown by more than 100%
- During 2005, Symbians revenues grew to GBP114.8m - an increase of 73%
on 2004
- Cumulative shipments of Symbian OS phones since Symbians formation
reached 58.8m phones at the end of December 2005
- At the end of 2005, 60 phone models from 10 Symbian OS licensees were
shipping to more than 250 major network operators around the world, of which
36 models commenced shipping in 2005
- Of the 60 phones models shipping, 22 were shipping to network operators
in Japan and across Europe for use on W-CDMA (3G) networks. Symbian estimates
that 35% of global 3G phone shipments in 2005 were based on Symbian OS
Highlights - Q4 2005
- Global shipments of Symbian OS phones in Q4 2005 rose to 10.9m; year on
year growth of 92% (Q4 2004- 5.7m)
- Ten new Symbian OS phones models commenced shipping in Q4 2005
including:
- For NTT DoCoMos 3G FOMA network, the F902i manufactured by Fujitsu,
the D902i, D880SS and D701iWM manufactured by Mitsubishi, and the SH902i
manufactured by Sharp
- Lenovo P930
- Nokia N70, Nokia 6708, Nokia 9300i
- Samsung SGH-D720
- At the end of Q4 2005, 58 phones and variants based on Symbian OS were
under development by nine licensees (see Notes to Editors for definitions)
(end of Q4 2004 - 40 phones and variants under development by 12 licensees)
- Of the 58 phones in development, seven phones have been launched but
are not yet commercially available including the Nokia Eseries mobile devices
E60, E61 and E71, the Nokia Nseries mobile devices N71, N80 and N92 and Sony
Ericssons P990 and M600 - all of which are the first phones to be based on
Symbian OS v9.
- At the end of Q4 2005, 4,588 third party applications for Symbian OS
phones were commercially available (end Q4 2004 - 4,001 applications)
(Source: Symbian research, see Notes to Editors for methodology)
- With escalating unit shipments, Symbian has made substantial progress
in Q4 2005 to ensure that Symbian OS is the ideal choice for handset
manufacturers developing advanced mobile phones for a mass market. On 8
February:
- Symbian announced the first 3G single-core reference design in
collaboration with Freescale and S60 aimed at lowering build costs for
mid-tier 3G phones and lowering development time by up to 50%
- Symbian announced new alternatives to its software license pricing
model in order to encourage customers to accelerate development of Symbian OS
phones. The new pricing models are expected to drive higher volumes by
enabling licensees to target lower cost phone market segments
Chief Executive Commentary
Nigel Clifford, Chief Executive Officer, Symbian Ltd today said:
Operational Review
"Symbian continued to make good progress in Q4 2005, with more than 10.9m
phones based on Symbian OS shipping to retailers and to more than 250 major
network operators around the world. In 2005 as a whole, Symbian OS licensees
shipped 33.9 million phones, taking the total shipments of Symbian OS phones
since Symbians formation to 58.8 million. Q4 2005 also saw 10 new models
launched and we have a further 58 Symbian OS phones in development by nine of
our licensees.
In 2005, after four consecutive years of over 100% year on year growth of
Symbian OS phone shipments, Symbian has achieved break-even for the first
time. This milestone further demonstrates Symbians leadership in the rapid
growth of the open phone market and commitment to driving new commercial
opportunities for handset manufacturers, network operators and partners in
the consumer and enterprise space."
Market
"While shipments of Symbian OS phones continue to increase, the number
remains small relative to the size of the overall handset market. Symbians
strategy remains focused on driving deeper and wider adoption of Symbian OS
both for advanced mobile devices and for lower cost, higher volume phones. We
have made a number of steps recently, including license price adjustments, a
3G reference design announcement and product developments, which are all
supportive of our ambition to address volume markets.
Symbian OS maintains its position as the industrys leading operating
system for phones designed for 3G networks. At the end of Q4 2005, 22 Symbian
OS phones (38% of the Symbian OS models shipping) were developed for 3G
networks, across Europe and Asia. These include the Nokia 6680, which market
researchers IDC recognised in October as the worlds best selling 3G phone.
Symbians progress in the Japanese market continues. Since NTT DoCoMo
made public its selection of Symbian OS as a common operating system for
handsets designed for its 3G FOMA network in November 2004, Symbian OS
licensees Fujitsu, Mitsubishi, Motorola, Nokia and Sharp Corporation have
announced a total of 22 Symbian OS phones in the Japanese market.
In line with Symbians strategy for entering the mass market, on 8th
February Symbian announced a new alternatives to its software licence pricing
model in order to encourage its licensees to accelerate development of
Symbian OS phones. The revised licensing model is expected to drive higher
volumes by enabling licensees to target lower cost phone market segments."
Technology
"Symbian has made substantial progress in Q4 2005 to ensure that Symbian
OS is the ideal OS choice for handset manufacturers developing mobile phones
for both the advanced and mid-tier markets. In September, Symbian delivered
to its licensees the latest release in the Symbian OS v9 family. Symbian
continues to deliver incremental enhancements to Symbian OS v9 in line with
market requirements such as faster start-up times, improved application
performance and smaller memory requirements, many of which specifically
address Symbians stated aim of targeting the mass market. Other areas of
enhancement include development tools for creating Symbian OS variants, which
make it faster for handset manufacturers to create operator-specific
customisations. Backward compatibility of new versions of Symbian OS with
previous versions from v9.0 onwards enables easy migration to new versions
for phone vendors, technology providers and 3rd party software providers.
On 8 February 2006 Symbian announced the first single-core 3G reference
design, in collaboration with Freescale and S60. This reference design
provides a pre-integrated single core chip solution that is expected to
provide handset manufacturers and operators the first real opportunity to
address the mid tier 3G phone market segments by reducing development time up
to 50%."
Outlook
"Symbian has the leading position in the open phone operating system
market, making it is well placed to benefit from the ever wider deployment of
3G networks and from network operators push to offer more of their
subscribers a broader range of commercial, value-added content and services.
Symbian is working hard with licensees and the wider Symbian ecosystem to
enable the adoption of Symbian OS into lower cost devices. We look forward to
making continued progress in 2006 and beyond."
Symbian Limited is holding a press conference today at 14.00 CET at Media
Zone, Hall 2 Level 0, Fira de Barcelona, at 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona,
Spain. If you wish to attend this press conference or have enquiries about
this press release, please call Anatolie Papas on +44 7810 697306 or e-mail
press@symbian.com. To receive Symbian news alerts directly to your inbox,
please register online http://www.symbian.com/news/subscribe.asp
Symbian Limited Q4 2005 results
Unaudited Financial and Operational Highlights
Q4 2005 Q3 2005 Q4 2004
Symbian OS Units 10.89m 8.54m 5.68m
Average Royalty / US$5.2 US$5.0 US$5.7
Unit *
Royalty GP% * 86% 86% 84%
Turnover (GBPm) GBPm GBPm GBPm
Royalties * 30.7 23.8 17.5
Consulting 2.9 4.0 4.1
Services
Partnering & Other 1.0 0.8 2.0
34.6 28.6 23.6
End Q4 2005 End Q3 2005 End Q4 2004
Number of products 60 60 41
in market
Number of 10 8 8
licensees with
products in market
Number of products 58 56 40
in development
Number of 9 11 12
licensees with
products in
development
* Royalties include Symbian OS & UIQ
Symbian Limited 2005 results
Unaudited Financial and Operational Highlights
2005 2004 2003
Symbian OS Units 33.95m 14.38m 6.67m
Average Royalty / Unit * US$5.14 US$5.72 US$6.24
Royalty GP% * 85% 84% 84%
Turnover (GBPm) GBPm GBPm GBPm
Royalties * 96.1 45.2 25.5
Consulting Services 14.8 17.5 17.1
Partnering & Other 3.9 3.8 2.8
114.8 66.5 45.4
* Royalties include Symbian OS & UIQ
These results do not constitute statutory accounts. They were prepared
under the same accounting policies stated in the lasted audited accounts of
the company, which have been filed with Companies House and may be obtained
from the Company Secretary, Symbian Limited, 2-6 Boundary Row, Southwark,
London, SE1 8HP, United Kingdom.
Notes to Editors
1. Definitions and Additional Information
Royalty Revenue - Symbian receives a royalty on each phone based on
Symbian OS shipped by licensees. From Symbian OS v7.0 onwards the royalty has
been set at $7.25 per unit for the first 2 million units shipped by a
licensee and $5 per unit thereafter. From v9.0 onwards after 1 July 2006,
licensees are being offered an additional pricing model based on either (a) a
fraction of the trade price of devices shipping; or (b) an annual volume
ratchet pricing structure, which is reset annually upon the anniversary of
the licensees election of this pricing alternative.
Symbian also receives additional royalty revenue for devices shipping
with the UIQ user interface supplied by Symbians wholly-owned subsidiary,
UIQ Technology AB.
Royalty Gross Profit - Symbian in-sources certain technologies when
either:
i) there is already an appropriate industry standard developed by another
party (e.g. Java from Sun); or
ii) technology can be more efficiently provided by an outside supplier
(e.g. WAP / web browsers; personal computer connectivity), and, in both
cases, where Symbian considers that such technologies should form part of
Symbian OS to satisfy market and licensees requirements.
Consulting Revenue - Symbian undertakes consultancy activities to assist
its licensees implement Symbian OS in new handsets. Symbian receives revenue
to cover costs (including full overhead recovery) but, since such activities
are primarily in support of licensees adoption of Symbian OS, Symbian does
not always seek a commercial gross profit on such consulting revenues. The
level of consulting revenue will fluctuate depending upon: (a) the volume of
new engagements with licensees; (b) the ability of licensees to develop new
Symbian OS phones without the assistance of Symbian; and (c) the ability of
Symbian Competence Centers to provide support for licensee product
development.
Partnering & Other Revenue - Symbian derives a further revenue stream
from training activities, partner activities (including the Symbian Platinum
Partner Program) and trade shows. These activities are designed to promote
Symbian OS and are therefore priced to enable cost recovery only.
Products in Development - Symbian defines a product in development on the
basis of the criteria below:
- a Symbian OS licensee has a significant development team engaged on the
project
- there is a clearly defined plan to take the product through development
to shipping
- the product is anticipated to ship in commercial volumes 2. Number of
Symbian OS Applications
Symbian tracks the number of commercially available Symbian OS
applications. This is done through surveying the applications offered for
sale by a wide range of on-line, commercial distributors of Symbian OS
applications.
To be included in the count of Symbian OS applications, an application
must be offered for sale by a company, not an individual.
Applications which are offered for sale but which do not meet these
criteria are regarded as "Shareware". Symbian maintains separate counts for
"Shareware", "Freeware" and "Open Source" applications.
Only applications written for, or specifically shown to work on, Symbian
OS phones are included in the Symbian OS application count. The count
includes applications written using any of the wide variety of programming
languages supported by Symbian OS, including C++, Java (pJava or MIDP),
AppForge Crossfire and OPL.
The number of Symbian OS applications does NOT include Java MIDlets that
have not been developed specifically for, nor have been explicitly validated
as running on, Symbian OS phones. It is therefore likely that there are many
additional Java MIDlet applications that will run on Symbian OS phones.
3. About Symbian Limited
Symbian is a software licensing company that develops and licenses
Symbian OS, the market leading open operating system for advanced,
data-enabled mobile phones, also known as smartphones.
Symbian licenses Symbian OS to the worlds leading handset manufacturers
and has built close co-operative business relationships with leading
companies across the mobile industry. At the end of 2005, 34 million Symbian
OS phones were sold worldwide to over 250 major network operators, bringing
the total number of Symbian OS phones shipped to almost 60 million at the of
2005.
Symbian has its headquarters in London, United Kingdom with offices in
the United States, Europe (England and Sweden (UIQ Technology AB)), Israel.
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