The new comScore smartphone market share numbers are out and
the weirdest number by far is the Windows Phone market share shift between October and January, when it actually shrank by
0.1 percentage points over three months to 3.1%. Of course,
Nokia’s (
NOK) Lumia 920 has been one of AT&T’s (
T) top 3 models for the past two months. Verizon (
VZ) has been selling the Lumia 822 as a free phone with a two-year contract. HTC’s (
2498) new Windows model 8X has been at Verizon and AT&T since December. Nobody expected Microsoft’s share of the US smartphone to rocket with these new devices, but how can it be going down at the same time the
BlackBerry (
BBRY) market share is collapsing?
Continue reading…