Good news for the almost forgotten Symbian OS, with details that the Nokia Store is seeing daily download figures in excess of 11 million.
The Nokia Store mainly provides content for Symbian devices, and although Symbian is out of favour these days, there are still a high number of Symbian handsets in use worldwide. Indeed, figures show that in 2011 the Symbian OS was the number one operating system in use.
The leading markets for downloads were India, by quite some way, followed by China, Russia, Brazil and Turkey. The most popular item for downloads in India were games, whilst in the other leading markets general applications proved to be popular with users. The most popular Symbian handset, unsurprisingly is the Nokia N8, followed by the Nokia 5800 and the Nokia C3.
The high number of downloads has enabled 177 developers to join the now-not-so-exclusive club of having their app downloaded more than 1 million times.
Leading applications were Facebook Chat, eBuddy Messenger Free, WhatsApp Messenger, High Speed 3D and Skype, showcasing a tendency towards communication applications.
With Nokia now focussing their attention on Windows Phone for their smartphones, they can only hope that the OS gains the popularity that Symbian still seems to have.