Canalys has produced their analysis of the EMEA Q1/2003 sales figures 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.
Latest EMEA PDA/Smartphone figures.
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 😃
I'm also suspicious about how relevant Oranges 4% is as I think the Canalys figures are on shipped devices.
This Inquirer article 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.
[quote="MaleBuffy"]I found the voice centric stats very ammusing 😃[/quote]
That was a good movie (your avatar)
😃