We don’t talk about it much, but last year Nokia asked us if we were interested in working with them to develop ShopSavvy for Symbian. We weren’t very interested as we assumed Symbian was going way, but Nokia was persistent and agreed to provide the all of the resources necessary to complete the project. Without much fanfare we released ShopSavvy on Nokia and assumed ‘that was that’. Around the same time we released ShopSavvy on Windows Phone 7 – ironically both Microsoft and Nokia funded this project together. Want to guess which app is doing better? ShopSavvy ranks in the top 10-20 on each platform – but we get 10X the number of downloads each day on Symbian than we do on Windows Phone 7. It is nuts.

This morning I read on Pingdom that “Symbian is still top mobile OS – finished 2011 with resurgence“. Suddenly our success on Symbian made perfect sense. Symbian is still growing – and its installed base is HUGE. Take a look: