These figures from the last Symbian Market Roundups [pdf] show a bit of the effect some of the recent launches are having in the smartphone market… look and compare with those of last year:
Smartphone stats Q32007:
Smartphone stats 2006:
Some of the things that may draw your attention:
- The iPhone taking North America by storm (amazing for a product with less than one year existence)
- Slightly smaller presence of Linux devices in Japan, slightly bigger in EMEA (I have to check whether this includes the Nokia N770s and N8xxs as “smartphones”, which may explain it)
- Snif! Poor Palm! Snif! }:/
- Overall, the CRUSHING majority of Symbian devices (anywhere that is not North America, that is) So, for (global)market dominance, don’t forget to run on Symbian! }:P
Also, to add to the thinking: this graphs only relate to new smartphones (that means: those who do more than calls and SMSes), with shipping numbers, as you can see in the first graph, in the order of thirtysomething millions… whereas the global phone market moves in the order of billions of devices. So even though these mark the trend… they’re still little in comparison with the overall existing numbers
But… give them a year or two… };)
So, what do you think? Will Linux take the mobile market soon? Will the iPhone crush MS WinMobile and RIM Blackberry? Will we finally come into our senses and realize phones are evil devices and we should go back to smoke signals?
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