More interesting data from the smartphone world analysts. See below for the full table of data, but essentially Nokia's world market share is down 2.4% year on year, to 45%, despite shipping over 3 million more units, a total of 18.4 million smartphones. RIM improved slightly to 18.7% market share, while Apple is now in third place at 13.3% market share. Notable is the fact that Nokia still outsold RIM, Apple, fourth-place HTC and fifth-place Fujitsu combined, so as ever, it's business as usual at Espoo. In terms of worldwide platform/OS market share, Symbian OS was down 6% at 51%, RIM was up at at 16%, iPhone OS up at 12% and Windows Mobile was down at 9%. Android's share was under 2%, showing how far this has to go to make a serious impact.
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In a market that grew 25% since last year, it is only logical that Nokia shipped more handsets. Probably just about everybody else did as well. The decrease in market share is rather significant, and has been consistent over time. They are still the market leader, but they are losing mind share at the moment, and over time this will translate into continued loss of market share.
Nokia is well aware that they are have lost momentum and they are struggling to regain it. From their rather comfortable position as market leader they have some time to fix it, but I hope the "solution" is around the corner. Perhaps the rumor that Maemo will power their future high end smartphones is what they need. At any rate, for that OS to become a real platform, they still need some time.
In any case, if they manage to produce a Maemo-based smartphone by the end of the year that meets all the speculated specs, they have my euros for an unlocked version. I just like Nokia, what can I say?!
I think Apple have increased the size of the market especially in the US where it's a two way fight between them and RIM. Nokia continue to do well and dominate in the markets they compete in. I suspect this is more to do with the likes of the 5800 than the N97 though.
Indeed, it would be great to see good regional data but I haven't really been able to find it (this the best I've found, which is not detailed and already a bit old but does give a sense of huge regional differences: http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=910112). If anyone has some, I would be really keen to see it.
Second, just to note that not everyone is doing great even in this growing market: "Others" number of units sold fell significantly, despite, I gather, including also former and current "big names" such as SE and Samsung.
@viipottaja You are right, not everybody increased there shipments. It was a bit of a generalisation, and completely accurate. Thanks for pointing that out.
What are these "fujitsu" smartphones? In what region is it available?
Maemo is used to power the Wireless Internet Device category, not smartphones, so it is unlikely that Maemo will be help Nokia regain market share in the smartphone segment. I think it is more likely that it will help decrease Nokia's part of the smartphone market as Maemo devices will compete with smartphones.
The Fujitsu phones will be smartphones for the Japanese market.
It seems to me that the huge increase of apple's market share was matched by the huge decrease in 'others'.
The other ups and downs seem to be pretty minimal in comparison.
What is behind 'others', I wonder?