Earlier, ChangeWave conducted a research which revealed changing trends in terms of purchase of smartphones. ABI Research’s latest survey for the market situation in the Q2 of 2010 divvies up some interesting findings too. As per the research, the mobile handset market had shipped 321.2 million devices in the same quarter. WCDMA handsets claimed to cover 31 percent market share where the growth for quarter-on-quarter and year-on-year basis were 5.9 percent and 19.4 percent respectively.
Recording the market share of each company individually, the research claimed that Nokia’s market share had declined to 34.5 percent in the Q2. With this fall, the company now seems to be reorganizing its business priorities. Since then its R&D appears to be closely working to meet the expectations for the Symbian OS and MeeGo platform. The company is looking at introducing some advanced resources for them.
ABI Research practice director Kevin Burden, stated, “Mobile phone users seem to be shrugging off their economic woes and going handset shopping. It is remarkable that the smartphone is starting to appeal to a very wide market cross-section. The smartphone is about to go multi-generational and the popularity of the number one handset form-factor, the ‘candy-bar’, could be waning.”
Vice-President for Forecasting Jake Saunders comments, “Samsung is still gunning for Nokia’s pre-eminent spot, but we will have to see if Samsung’s recent smartphone launches, such as the Galaxy S, will help it resume its march on Nokia.”
LG is said to have increased its share to 9.5 percent. Samsung moves away from its seven-quarter winning streak records of growing its QoQ market share. It attributes this to the fall in the European economic outlook. Apple’s share market on the other had suggests to have declined to 2.6 percent. The results were apparently affected because of the iPhone 4 antenna media issue otherwise sales of the handset would have ‘wowed more’ in the release cycle of the product.
With a market share of about 3.5 percent, RIM is said to be progressing. It claims to deliver a combination of an enhanced messaging platform, unique design aesthetics and entertaining features for users. Compared to the first quarter of 2010, Motorola’s market share is claimed to have declined by 8.3 million that is 2.6 percent. But the company has achieved critical acclaim with its recent release of smartphones by passing all the challenges piling up product awareness and access to markets.
The report seems to essay the fact that though Samsung is growing high with its line of smartphones, they’re still rooting to take Nokia’s spot.