Ever since Nokia has come to host Windows Phone OS on its devices, there are ever increasing pessimists who say that Nokia did wrong cooperating with Microsoft and it had better done so for Android. But some numbers show that Nokia is doing just fine and is outperforming many of its competitors. OccasionalGamers collection, which has over 1 million game installs, provides some data to confirm that if not generally, then in WP market Nokia has gained sole leadership.
Mostly due to the good acceptance of its flagships, the Nokia Lumia 800 and the Lumia 710 smartphones, Nokia now has 45 percent of second-generation smartphone market. HTC surprisingly still holds the second position with its 40 percent of the share (due perhaps to the popularity of its HTC Radar handsets in Europe and the USA across T-Mobile). Samsung with its Omnia W/Focus Flash has 12 percent and Fujitsu a tiny 3 percent of the market.
Anyway, the issue here is whether the users in majority will start associating Windows Phone with Nokia. This impression in the minds of users is very important and that’s why Nokia is so happy its two new phones got a good advantage just from the beginning. And Nokia surely wants to keep the leading role in this range this year too. Let’s wait and see what further steps Nokia will undertake.
