Siemens Adopts Symbian for Smartphones; Siemens Signs Licensing Agreement To Use Symbian Software Platform For Its Future Smartphones

Business Wire, Feb 19, 2001

Business Editors & Telecommunications Writers

CANNES, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 19, 2001

The Siemens Information and Communications Mobile Group announced at the Cannes 3GSM World Congress that it has selected the Symbian platform to power its next generation of Smartphones. The mobile phone giant, which recently became the second largest manufacturer in Europe, chose the software platform from Symbian to meet the requirements of Siemens' future Smartphone customers.

Symbian, which supplies a software platform for next-generation mobile phones is working with leading mobile phone manufacturers to address the emerging demand for Smartphones which combine voice communications, wireless Internet access and computing functionality.

"This agreement between Symbian and Siemens is very exciting news for our customers," said Peter Zapf, president Mobile Phones. "The Symbian platform allows us to continue the development of our Smartphone portfolio, not only for business users, but for all mobile phone consumers that want the world's best mobile business and entertainment features on their handsets."

"We are delighted to welcome Siemens as the latest licensee of the Symbian platform. Siemens is internationally recognized as a leading player in the mobile phone industry and has a wealth of consumer experience and marketing knowledge which will be of great value to this partnership," said Colly Myers, CEO, Symbian. "This announcement further emphasizes the widespread success of the Symbian platform as the standard that's powering the next generation of mobile phones."

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Further information about this Siemens group can be found at http://www.ic.siemens.com/mobile (http://www.ic.siemens.com/mobile

About Symbian

Symbian Ltd. owns, develops and licenses a software platform for next generation mobile phones. Owned by Ericsson, Matsushita (Panasonic), Motorola, Nokia and Psion, Symbian's mission is to license the Symbian platform to all mobile phone manufacturers and to create a mass market for next generation mobile phones by working closely with wireless networks, content, messaging and enterprise wide solution providers. With headquarters in the UK, Symbian also has offices in US, Japan and Sweden. Symbian's website can be found at http://www.symbian.com.