Nokia has in the nearly twelve years that the Symbian phones it sells almost half a billion devices with the platform sold. This is evident from an analysis of Tweakers. The Finnish manufacturer sold the most phones when iPhones and Android phones in the store layers.
The sales of Symbian phones are now as good as silent: Thursday appeared during the presentation of the quarterly figures that there are only half a million Symbians sold. Although not all sales of smartphones last quarter are known, would be that according to recent estimates, has a market share of 0.2 percent mean.
In total, Nokia about 470 million Symbian phones sold, as appears from an analysis of Tweakers. To the total sales to calculate its figures caught that Nokia itself has published. Of the period before 2004, when Nokia still no sales figures of its smartphones announced, are the estimations of analysts.
Although the emergence of Android and Apple’s iPhone, according to many, to the decline of Symbian have led, sold Nokia is by far the most smartphones after these phones in the stores. The peak year was 2010, when Nokia a total of 100 million Symbian phones sold. The share of the market peaked, however, in 2004, to 11.8 of the 17.5 million sold smartphones, with a Nokia logo.
Nokia announced in February 2011 to stop making Symbian phones in favour of Windows Phone. Since that time, there are approximately 19 million Lumia phones and nearly 100 million Symbian devices sold. Since half a year sell Nokia more Windows Phone devices than Symbians. The last Symbian phone that Nokia is the cameraphone 808 PureView. Accenture has the maintenance of the platform inherited from Nokia, so the support will continue until 2016.
The Finnish manufacturer is indeed the last, but not the only one who Symbian phones made. Sony Ericsson released in 2010, are latest models with Symbian and Samsung stopped after the Omnia HD in 2009 with the creation of Symbians. There were also many other companies with a license and in Japan until a few years ago, a lot of phones with their own version of Symbian sold. There were several versions of Symbian in circulation: in addition to Nokia’s S60 were more UIQ from Sony Ericsson and Foma of Japanese manufacturers.
