Android, iPhone gain as Blackberry, Nokia, Moto wither
Whether here in the U.S. or internationally, the second calendar quarter of 2011 wasn’t good for the old guard with RIM, Nokia and Motorola struggling to hang on. And, the winners? You know all about them.
First off, eWeek presents just release Nielsen smartphone data through the end of June. Thereupon, the big market winners of the last few years, iPhone and Android, continue their winning ways and the losers are still just that.
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- • iPhone increased its share to 27 percent of the U.S. market
— Apple is the most popular phone brand in the U.S.• Google Android added 1 point to claim 39 percent of the U.S. market
— HTC is the second most popular phone brand with a 20 percent share
— Motorola is the number three smartphone vendor
— Samsung hold the number four spot• Blackberry declined from 23 percent in April to 20 percent in June
— Product delays and flawed launches, i.e. Playbook, have harmed sales• Windows Phone 7 garnered 9 percent
— Mango update is now shipping to OEMs
Cupertino’s eternal sunshine
Rounding up the international data is a Strategy Analytics report that notes 361 million handsets — dumb, feature, smart phones inclusive — shipped, up 13 on the previous year. Again, last quarter’s winners are this quarter’s winners and ditto that for the losers.
Nokia is fading with increasing velocity and Motorola has already dropped out of the top five. One of the really interesting trends jn the above table is that Samsung is eating Nokia’s feature phone lunch, which makes me wonder how long either company will remain in the top five.
And, like the U.S., Apple is the most popular smartphone maker internationally — it just passed both Samsung and Nokia.
As noted above, Windows Phone 7 has gone from zero to 9 percent in the space of about a year, which is very, very respectable. Is this success going to translate when Nokia begins selling their smartphones loaded with Redmond’s well respected mobile operating system?
I’m very, very skeptical of the likelihood — two turkeys do not an eagle make — but the possibility has increased just a little…
What’s your take?
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