Give up: 77.3m Symbian phones shipped in 2007

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Richard @ Feb 12th 2008 11:53AM

@Frankie,

What are you smoking?

If you can compare the iPhone to a WinMob phone, certainly you can compare WinMob to Symbian.

The iPhone is, by definition, a feature phone. You can't add applications to it...so it really doesn't-IMHO-make the cut.

There are three flavors of WinMob (Smart, PPC and PPC w/ TouchFlo on top). A fourth is in development (SE's XPERIA panels).

Symbian comes in two flavors (UIQ and Series 60). A third is in development (Series 60 Touch).

It would be interesting to compare S60 to WinMob SmartPhone. I'll bet S60 is the clear leader, globally. PPC vs. UIQ, I'll bet, is a lot closer contest as the P990 did SE no favors in the global share wars and I don't know if the P1 has spurred any kind of share recovery.

I don't think that price makes a difference. It is a straight comparison of phones which run third party apps, be they touch-screen-based or smartphone based.

I can't imagine the Symbian - with years of headstart in Europe (who are years ahead of the USA in going mobile), isn't the overall leader...by a large margin.

...and just so you don't get your undies in a bunch over this, I use a Tilt.

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amby @ Feb 14th 2008 7:56AM

The 77 million is for the smartphones. Frankie talking about the cheap phones which come with S40 - and those are not included in this count. (I only guess, but Nokia sold about 400 million devices with either S40 or S60 in 2007 - so logic says that S40 $100 dollar devices are not included in this count.)

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