Smart phone rankings

[ScottM]

Since a hot topic of conversation is always who has the better smart phone, Apple or it copiers, I thought I would share with you the latest ratings.

http://www.mobilebusinessbriefing.c...es/25760?elq=6845d3379c764d8288f261260c661c86

Data from Strategy Analytics states Samsung shipped 56.9 million smartphones worldwide in the third quarter of 2012, the largest number of units ever shipped by a smartphone vendor in a single quarter. Apple grew a healthy 57 percent annually and shipped 26.9 million smartphones worldwide for 17 percent market share, up from 14 percent recorded a year earlier. Samsung and Apple combined now account for over half of all smartphones shipped worldwide, up from around one-third a year ago.

Strategy Analytics says Nokia shipped 6.3 million smartphones worldwide for a 4 percent marketshare in Q3 2012, dipping from 16.8 million units and 14 percent share in Q3 2011. “Nokia will need to ramp up sharply its Windows Phone volumes if it wants to recapture a top-three smartphone position in the next one to two quarters,” commented Neil Shah, Senior Analyst at Strategy Analytics.

The news from IDC is even worse for Nokia. "Nokia's exit from the Top 5, where it had resided since the inception of IDC's Mobile Phone Tracker in 2004, was precipitated by the rise of Samsung and Apple globally and high-growth vendors like Huawei in China, where Nokia was the dominant player as recently as the third quarter of 2011," notes a statement.

The Nokia phone is of course Windows based. I played with one recently and the UI is interesting, but not intuitive. But get ready because M$ is bringing that basic UI design to Windows8.

 

[jtheune]

It's interesting how you phrased you comment as "Apple or it's copiers". Smart phones have been around since 1993 and IBM is credited with developing the first so I would put Apple in the copiers collection as well.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/199243/a_brief_history_of_smartphones.html