Finnish mobile phone manufacturer Nokia has revealed that nearly 2 billion phones now run the firm’s successful S40 operating system.
The first phone to run using S40 was sold in 1999.
Since then, the easy to use operating system has been used across many of Nokia’s devices.
Many feature phones operate using S40 with the benefits including:
- Good battery power
- Significant phone memory
- Ability to run applications
Whilst the S40 feature phones are unable to compete with the high-end smartphone market, the phones remain ever popular:
- There are an estimated 675 million active owners of S40 phones
- Nokia currently sells 12 S40 phones each second
- Each day 3.7 million app downloads are registered for S40 phones
Most recently, Nokia unveiled the Lumia 800 complete with Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7.5 software alongside a new range of S40 phones under the ‘Asha’ brand.
Nokia believes that the S40 operating system will remain popular for the moment, with new devices due to be launched in February.
