by John Calian |
Topics:
Nokia |
Smartphone Sales |
Symbian
Despite all the noise here in the US about Apple, Blackberry and the highly anticipated Palm Pre, it is still Symbian, the smartphone operating system owned by Nokia (Public, NYSE:NOK), that dominates the smartphone marketplace with a whopping 53% market share.
Looking at the chart above, from Gartner, Symbian was installed in an astounding 72 million smartphone units last year, 300% more than the next OS developer, Research in Motion (Blackberry).
Despite Symbian's (and Nokia's) strong position, "Samsung, RIM, HTC and Apple saw their volumes and share increase during 2008, thanks to their ability to offer compelling device experiences and touch interfaces.” Nokia is well aware that the competition is heating up, and that slick, consumer friendly touch screen devices will be to the next 5 years what the RAZR was to the last 5 years for normal consumers. I wold expect to see Nokia devices, running Symbian and sporting touch screens, to hit the US market in the coming 12-18 months.
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