Nokia has released its Q2 2006 financial and sales results. The overall picture is healthy with sales up 22% (78.4m of 230m industry total). In the converged device (smartphone) space Nokia sold 9 million units compared to 6.7 million units in Q2 2005. Nseries device shipments are up 60% from Q1 2006 to 3 million. The converged device segment continues to be the fastest growing area in mobile device volumes.
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As ever, impressive figures from Nokia. When set against equivalent quarterly worldwide sales figures for Palm Treos and Windows Mobile 5 devices, which are broadly comparable in terms of functionality, especially with the Nseries devices, the contrast between 6 million and a few hundred thousand means that the 'outselling 10 to 1' rule is still not that far off.
Not that I'm bashing the other OS here, honest. 90% of Nseries purchasers probably aren't using their device to its full potential, whereas you can bet anyone buying a Treo 650 or HTC Universal (for example) know exactly what to do with their purchase, evening out the numbers in terms of active users between the different platforms.
Steve
While we speak of Symbian, them they sell to the millions� and goes to increase still more.
"Not that I'm bashing the other OS here, honest. 90% of Nseries purchasers probably aren't using their device to its full potential, whereas you can bet anyone buying a Treo 650 or HTC Universal (for example) know exactly what to do with their purchase, evening out the numbers in terms of active users between the different platforms."
This is why I keep banging on about making it a no-brainer to obtain and pay for apps on Symbian phones. It would mean that people wouldn't have to even know they had a smartphone, they'd just know there was a nice friendly-looking icon on the menu which let them get all kinds of goodies on their phone.
[QUOTE=krisseThis is why I keep banging on about making it a no-brainer to obtain and pay for apps on Symbian phones. It would mean that people wouldn't have to even know they had a smartphone, they'd just know there was a nice friendly-looking icon on the menu which let them get all kinds of goodies on their phone.[/QUOTE]This (used to be called "Preminet Solution"😉 Nokia Content Discoverer is a catalog app to get, try and buy apps. It is appearing on more and more Nokia models (retail variants, and when the operator has not requested it to be removed): http://www.nokia.com/ncd
If it isn't preinstalled, you can see if there's a version for your model here: http://europe.nokia.com/nokia/0,,84740,00.html