HTC, Samsung Sold Nearly 20 Million Mobile Phones In The First Quarter

HTC and Samsung make the killing of selling mobile phones, mainly thanks to Android. Nokia is sadly missed, but not out of the picture. But due to huge amounts of these three phones sold, the future could be a good phone Windows 7 as HTC, Samsung, and soon, Nokia phones to offer the WP7.


The iPhone is not in danger. It seems as if the increase in market share of these players came mostly at the expense of RIM's BlackBerry


HTC (Check that the model is pictured) has seen its global sales of its smartphones jumping 229.6 percent in the first quarter of 2011 to 8,900,000 units, only 2.7 million in the quarter a year earlier , a market share of 8.9 percent versus 4.9 percent a year ago, according to figures released this week by IDC. Samsung saw its unit sales jumped 350 percent to 10.8 million units versus 2.4 million in the quarter a year ago a market share of 10.8 percent, versus 4.3 percent first quarter 2010.


Nokia had the worst performance among the top handset manufacturers five years, more than 12.6 percent to 24.2 million units from 21.5 million a year earlier. This market share has dropped dramatically, however, to 24.3 percent in the first quarter from 38.8 percent a year earlier. This gives more reason for Nokia to abandon its Symbian operating system to Windows Mobile 7, despite running WP7 Nokias will not be available until October at the earliest. This week, Nokia Chairman Jorma Ollila said he will leave the company next year.


While some readers of this blog is quickly a few words about "Windows 7 Phone" and "FAIL" I do not believe that the long-term prospects are good OS. Despite the annoying, perhaps even boring, Node problems installing the update, I have often said that I WP7 competitive operating system Android, and Apple the IOS. E 'interface is easy to navigate and is the developer community is growing rapidly.


And I think Microsoft has a strong impact Nokia, when these devices come to market. IDC seems to agree with me. E 'put out a forecast for March 29, the mobile phone to Windows 7 and Windows Mobile (even though most WP7) will reach a market share of 20.9 percent in 2015, which WP7 smartphone sales in second place behind the Android operating system is 45.4 percent.


Other highlights of the survey: sales increased 114.4 percent on iPhone to 18.7 million units, against 8,700,000 last year, for a market share of 18.7 percent from 15.7 percent. Research In Motion has reported sales of 13.9 million BlackBerry smart phones in Q1, up from 31.1 percent in the quarter last year. Nokia, however, the share of BlackBerry on the market also fell, to 13.9 percent from 19.1 percent a year earlier.


Overall, smartphone sales worldwide jumped 79.7 percent in the first quarter to 99.6 million units from 55.4 million years, that trade consumer base of mobile phones to smartphones richer feature at a rapid pace.