{"id":260651,"date":"2010-02-01T12:45:33","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T17:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"tag:contentnext.com,2010-02-01:article\/419-nokia-rim-continue-to-dominate-as-global-smartphone-sales-soar"},"modified":"2010-02-01T12:45:33","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T17:45:33","slug":"nokia-rim-continue-to-dominate-as-global-smartphone-sales-soar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/260651","title":{"rendered":"Nokia, RIM Continue To Dominate As Global Smartphone Sales Soar"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Despite Apple’s mindshare, Research In Motion and Nokia (NYSE: NOK<\/a>) continue to dominate the smartphone market on a global basis.<\/p>\n

Strategy Analytics said that global smartphone shipments increased 30 percent to a record 53 million units in the fourth quarter, compared the same period a year ago. While the appetite for smartphones continues to grow, both Nokia, RIM (NSDQ: RIMM<\/a>) and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL<\/a>) have been able to increase their marketshare. Nokia owns roughly 39 percent of the market; RIM maintains 20 percent, and Apple is in third with 16 percent. Report<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

Over the next year, the three may struggle as other handset makers begin producing competitively priced and attractive 3G devices. Neil Mawston, director at Strategy Analytics, said: \u201cThe smartphone market will become ultra competitive in 2010. Samsung and LG (SEO: 066570) have ambitious plans to grow volumes and expand their app stores, while emerging players like Dell and Huawei are strengthening their device portfolios and courting major operators.”<\/p>\n

The competition will likely lead to price wars. Evidence of that may already be surfacing. Reuters reports today<\/a> that Nokia cut phone prices across its portfolio in late January, putting its cheapest smartphones in line with mid-range devices from Samsung and Sony (NYSE: SNE<\/a>) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC<\/a>). For instance, Nokia’s cheapest smartphone is the 5230, which now retails for around 170 euros ($239) in Finland. The model’s wholesale price is now below 120 euros. Several industry sources told Reuters (NYSE: TRI<\/a>) that the price cuts added up to about a 10 percent chop.\n<\/p>\n

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Despite Apple’s mindshare, Research In Motion and Nokia (NYSE: NOK) continue to dominate the smartphone market on a global basis. Strategy Analytics said that global smartphone shipments increased 30 percent to a record 53 million units in the fourth quarter, compared the same period a year ago. While the appetite for smartphones continues to grow, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2853,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2853"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}