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iPhone Challenges Symbian, but Symbian Fights Back

Posted on September 02, 2008

Symbian has released data for the first half of the year and the second quarter of 2008 that shows it has met the iPhone challenge and is still on top. That s what happens when you have 159 devices shipping with your operating system and are a mainstay OS for Nokia, which has captured 39.5 percent of the handset market.During the second quarter, Symbian launched on 19.6 million devices, up just 5 percent from 18.7 million for the same period the year before. From April to June 2008, Apple said it sold 717,000 iPhones up from 270,000 in the same period in 2007 for growth of 166 percent. Awes...

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