Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Nokia acquires Symbian Limited

Nokia announced that it has completed its offer to acquire Symbian Limited. All
conditions to Nokia’s offer to acquire Symbian Limited have been satisfied and it has received valid acceptance
of greater than 99.9% of the total Symbian shares that Nokia did not already own.

The closing of the offer is a fundamental step in the establishment of the Symbian Foundation, announced on
June 24, 2008 by Nokia, together with AT&T, LG Electronics, Motorola, NTT DOCOMO, Samsung, Sony Ericsson,
ST-NXP Wireless, Texas Instruments and Vodafone. More information about the planned foundation can be
found at www.symbianfoundation.org.

All Symbian employees are planned to become Nokia employees on February 1, 2009.

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