FOMA™ F705i launched today is based on Symbian OS

Symbian Limited today welcomes NTT DoCoMo's launch of the FOMA F705i which is based on Symbian OS™ and started shipping in Japan today.

Symbian OS is the market-leading open operating system for smartphones.

The FOMA F705i, a thin waterproof handset, is manufactured by Symbian customer Fujitsu Limited and includes the MOAP® platform compliant with the latest FOMA specifications.

Symbian continues to focus on delivering a flexible, robust and open mobile operating system which gives handset manufacturers and network operators the ability to develop differentiated phones, faster, more easily and at lower cost for different market segments and regions. Symbian customers that have shipped 3G phones in Japan based on Symbian OS include Fujitsu, Mitsubishi Electric, Motorola, Nokia, Sharp, and Sony Ericsson.

The following 70 phones based on Symbian OS have shipped in Japan.

Symbian is a software licensing company that develops and licenses Symbian OS, the market-leading open operating system for advanced, data-enabled mobile phones known as smartphones.

Symbian licenses Symbian OS to the world's leading handset manufacturers and has built close co-operative business relationships with leading companies across the mobile industry. During Q3 2007, 20.4 million Symbian smartphones were sold worldwide to over 250 major network operators, bringing the total number of Symbian smartphones shipped up to 30 September 2007 to 165 million.

Symbian has its headquarters in London, United Kingdom, with offices in the United States, United Kingdom, Asia (India, P.R. China, and Korea) and Japan.

Source: FOMA