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Ah yes, I always leap upon new official figures from Canalys - kind of like tuning into radio chart shows to find out which song is 'number 1'. 118 million smartphones were sold across the world in 2007, but who were the winners and losers? Read on to find out.
If the iPhone is included, what about all the other equivalent mid-range feature phones?
I suspect that the iPhone is in there because it's a smartphone that err.... hasn't had its smartness unlocked yet. 8-)
Within a few weeks, all iPhone will be able to run proper 3rd party apps though and the Canalys classification will make more sense!
Steve
For anyone that hasn't realised it yet, we're at the start of the next generation of "personal computer". Microsoft will have as much impact on and success in operating systems for this generation as IBM (a mainframe and minicomputer manufacturer at the time, and the previous leader of the pack) had over the last generation. i.e. very little, rapidly fading into obscurity. Note, I am talking software, not hardware (IBM designed the original PC of course, but that comparison can't be made here as MS have not designed a global standard in mobile hardware). Anyone focussing on MS from now on is focussing on old technology.
Nokia itself enjoys 44.5% of the smartphone market.
I don't think the iPhone could be called Smartphone.
What makes a Smartphone is in my point of view the ability to install native 3rd-Party Software.
That really makes a Phone smart and usable as something like a "Computer 2.0" (Nokias marketing term for the N95).
The iPhone is like all the other newer feature Phones (for example the S40 Devices, or the SE K800i). They all can play music, can receiver Email, have some PIM-Tools. And they are in contrast to the iphone able to run j2me-applications. Sure the iPhone has a big nice touchscreen with a good UI and a powerfull browser. But as iItested it, browsing the Web over EDGE was slower than on my E61i over UMTS with Opera Mini.
And about Microsoft and Windows Mobile:
I don't think that their position is that bad.
Looking at the People how really are beware that they are buying a Smartphone (buying the device just because they want a smartphone), MS's marketshare is much bigger.
Nokia does somehow "fake" the Smartphone sells just by giving nearly all their mid- to upperclass phones S60.
Nokia is the Nr. 1 in Mobilephones. Their phones like the N95 wouldn't sell much less if it would be shipped with S40.
When i look at my friends/parents. A lot of these use S60 devices these days. They where sold to the average phone user. Most of them just use it just to make phone calls, write sms, using the camera, contacts just for phone numbers. Most of some aren't even aware of having a smartphone with the ability to do much more (installing aplications, browsing the web, writing emails) and they couldn't care less about these features. They just use it as normal feature phone. They do not need a smartphone. For them a N72 is just like all the other Mulitmedia feature phones like the ones from SE or Samsung for example.
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