Gartner reports that Nokia continues to lose its market share. According to the world’s leading information technology research and advisory company, Nokia’s share has fallen to 25.1 percent – it’s the lowest value since 1997.
If you remember, in the first quarter of 2010 Nokia’s market share was 30.6 percent, so a 5.5 percent drop is really significant.
Samsung held the second largest market share – 16.1 percent, and LG with its 5.6 percent was the third. Both companies lost a bit of their shares, while Apple, which was in the fourth place, continues to grow (from last year’s 2.3 percent to this year’s 3.9 percent).
As for cellphone sales in general, they were up by 19 percent if compared with the first quarter of 2010. Smartphones are also sold very well – 23.6 percent of all sold mobile devices were smartphones.
The situation with operating systems is also very interesting this year. In 2010 Nokia’s Symbian held 44.2 percent of the market, and Google’s Android had only 9.6 percent. In the first quarter of this year Android holds 36 percent of the market, while Symbian has only 27.4 percent. As for Microsoft’s OS, it was 6.8 percent last year, and it’s down to 3.6 percent now.
Not good news for Nokia and Microsoft, of course, but let’s hope their agreement and Nokia’s first WP7 devices that are already being tested will change everything.
