Canalys (http://www.canalys.com) has produced their analysis of the EMEA Q1/2003 sales figures (http://www.canalys.com/pr/r2003041.htm) for PDAs and Smartphones. Symbian is still top and extends its lead to 53% of the market compared to 42% in Q4/2002. Total Symbian devices shipped were up to 807,270 from 679,250 in the previous quarter. Windows CE has overtaken Palm based devices with 24% of the market compared to 19%. Nokia retains its 42% market share with Sony Ericsson making up the rest of the Symbian figures with 12%. I think the SE figures are good seeing as the P800 has only recently been availible throughout the EMEA. Orange have 4% of the market which I assume represents the SPV sales. Symbian have 91% of all smartphone sales.

Interestingly, the P800 is outselling the iPaq's.

I find it very amusing that the main Microsoft buddy-site, PocketPCThoughts (much like Microsoft), prefer to pretend Symbian doesn't exist (thus eliminating the need to consider it), unlike the author of this topic who took a fuller picture of the stats.

Of course, when all one lives for is to see PalmOS go down the pan, what else can you expect from the fangirls?

I found the voice centric stats very ammusing :D

I'm also suspicious about how relevant Oranges 4% is as I think the Canalys figures are on shipped devices.

This Inquirer article (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9017) suggests 40,000 of the 70,000 SPV's earmarked for the UK have not been sold, hence they are delaying the release of the SPVx.

I found the voice centric stats very ammusing :D
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