Inventory of fixtures of the market of the mobile: Nokia leader threatened and to be able catch of Android

It moves in the market for mobile telephony. Small dot on the waltz of the market shares of manufacturers and OS.


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Worldwide, sales of mobile continues to grow in the third quarter of the year according to figures released by Gartner. Between July and September, it sold a total of 440.5 million mobile or 5.6% from a year ago. If smartphones are clearly the locomotive market in countries where rates of equipment are already very high, it is the feature-phone markets that drive good sales in emerging markets.

Nokia remains the world leader with 105 million handsets shipped in the quarter, but saw its market share fell from 28.2% to 23.9%. On the one hand the Finnish manufacturer of mobile delivered 117 million over the same period a year earlier, and also its main competitors have been strengthened. Nokia is counting on the launch of its Windows Phone Lumia, and other models arriving in 2012, to rise again.

Behind him is pushing Samsung with 78.6 million handsets shipped 71.6 million against a year earlier. Its market share 0.6 points wins and goes to 17.8%, thanks to the success of its Android smartphones in the Galaxy. The difference between these two top of the class with the third manufacturer in the world, remains open, since the other Korean, LG, is the third of the market with 4.8% market share (- 1.8 points) for a total of 21 million phone delivered. Apple follows with 17.3 million iPhones sold, against 13.5 million a year earlier, allowing its market share from 3.2% to 3.9%. The iPhone 4S already sold over 4 million copies would allow Apple to assert his rank.

Also note the strong growth of Chinese ZTE, which in force to go upmarket, gaining 1.3 points of market share to 3.2% with sales two times higher than a year ago, 14 , 1 million phones. It passes RIM BlackBerry stabilized with 2.9% market share, while the Taiwanese HTC is him growing with 12.1 million handsets sold against 6.5 million a year earlier. Follow Motorola returns to growth of market share, and Huawei, another Chinese rising.

Gartner inform us that the smartphone market continues to grow from 115 million phones sold in the quarter, 42% increase over one year. Figures from the firm, Android was well established as the first platform in the market with 52.5% market share. It must be said that it sold three times as many Android phones on these three months a year earlier (60.4 million against 20.5 million). Symbian drop 36.3% to 16.9%, and IOS from 16.6% to 15%. Windows Phone has not yet taken off, with sales down over the quarter and lost market share 1.2 points to 1.5%. Unlike Bada, Samsung's proprietary OS, up from 1.1% to 2.2% with 2.5 million devices sold.

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