298,000 Symbian smartphones ship every day

August 4th, 2010, 21:30 Posted By: wraggster

Symbian has come out fighting in the smartphone war, proudly announcing that more than 27 million Symbian devices shipped in the second quarter of the year.
As the Symbian Foundation points out, that's nearly 300,000 a day (298,080 a day to be specific, given Symbian's claim of 207 handsets a minute).
"These figures make for very positive news for the Symbian community," says Symbian executive director Lee Williams (pictured).
"The smartphone market place has become more crowded than ever. So the fact we continue to outsell our competitors by such large margins, combined with all the feature commitments and developments published on our roadmaps, make us highly confident in our outlook and we will continue to embrace the challenges ahead."
Google recently announced that it was activating 160,000 Android handsets a day, by comparison. Meanwhile, Apple sold nearly 8.4 million iPhones during Q2 - around 93,000 a day.
The caveat for app developers is where those handsets are being sold, and how actively their buyers are using applications.

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