Canalys Research: Strong Growth In Smartphone Market

[Mike Temporale]

http://www.canalys.com/pr/2004/r2004102.htm

"Symbian’s position in most regions is shaped primarily by Nokia’s smart phone performance,” added analyst Rachel Lashford. “In Japan, however, it is Fujitsu’s success that underpins most of the operating system vendor’s 78% mobile device share.In the US only 6% of the mobile devices shipped in Q3 2004 ran the Symbian OS, compared to 43% for PalmSource and 25% for Microsoft.” While Symbian leads overall, it only plays in the voice-centric part of the market. For data-centric devices Microsoft led in the quarter with 45% share globally, up from 40% a year earlier, with PalmSource on 29%, down from 45% in Q3 2003."

Canalys research has released their quarterly report on the state of the worldwide handhled and mobile device market. According to their report, voice centric devices (ie: smartphones and "feature" phones) saw a 190% increase in shippments. While data centric devices only had a 18% increase. I think this is a clear indication that the Windows Mobile Smartphone is here to stay, and it is not about to be rolled into the Pocket PC line. However, I won't rule out the possibility of seeing Microsoft role the Pocket PC line into Smartphone. :wink:

[Mike Temporale]

http://www.canalys.com/pr/2004/r2004102.htm

"Symbian’s position in most regions is shaped primarily by Nokia’s smart phone performance,” added analyst Rachel Lashford. “In Japan, however, it is Fujitsu’s success that underpins most of the operating system vendor’s 78% mobile device share.In the US only 6% of the mobile devices shipped in Q3 2004 ran the Symbian OS, compared to 43% for PalmSource and 25% for Microsoft.” While Symbian leads overall, it only plays in the voice-centric part of the market. For data-centric devices Microsoft led in the quarter with 45% share globally, up from 40% a year earlier, with PalmSource on 29%, down from 45% in Q3 2003."

Canalys research has released their quarterly report on the state of the worldwide handhled and mobile device market. According to their report, voice centric devices (ie: smartphones and "feature" phones) saw a 190% increase in shippments. While data centric devices only had a 18% increase. I think this is a clear indication that the Windows Mobile Smartphone is here to stay, and it is not about to be rolled into the Pocket PC line. However, I won't rule out the possibility of seeing Microsoft role the Pocket PC line into Smartphone. :wink: