Mike Temporale
06-01-2004, 05:30 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.canalys.com/pr/r2004061.htm' target='_blank'>http://www.canalys.com/pr/r2004061.htm</a><br /><br /></div>Canalys reports that overall the worldwide mobile device market in Q1 2004 is up 41% over Q1 2003 and the smartphone (including feature phones) is up 115%. They also claim Symbian's share of the smartphone market is over 90% in the EMEA, but is much less at 60% outside of the EMEA. Personally, I disagree with how Canalys groups products and as a result the market breakdown. Regardless, the numbers look pretty nice. Here are a couple quotes, you can get the report at the above linked article.<br /><br />"In North America... handhelds still account for the majority of mobile device shipments, but have fallen from a very high 83% to 59%, while smart phones have increased from 10% to 23%. As the number and range of smart phones available on the market increases, handhelds will come under even more pressure."<br /><br />"In EMEA, 60% of the mobile devices that shipped in Q1 were running the Symbian OS, but in North America this was just 6%, with PalmSource leading on 47%, followed by Microsoft on 28%. Meanwhile Linux already represents over 14% of mobile device shipments in APAC and continues to increase, despite making little impression anywhere else so far."<br /><br />What do you think?