{"id":649678,"date":"2013-03-29T19:33:06","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T23:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=403527"},"modified":"2013-03-29T19:33:06","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T23:33:06","slug":"survey-samsung-takes-the-lead-from-nokia-blackberry-in-key-emerging-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/649678","title":{"rendered":"Survey: Samsung takes the lead from Nokia, BlackBerry in key emerging markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/29\/samsung-emerging-market-share-403527\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"700\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/samsung-1.jpg?w=650&amp;h=700&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Samsung Emerging Market Share\" title=\"Samsung\" \/><\/a><\/center>One of the big stories to follow in 2013 will be the <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/11\/indian-smartphone-vendors-analysis-368541\/\">intensifying competition among smartphone vendors<\/a> for market share in important emerging markets such as China, Brazil and India. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/alexkonrad\/2013\/03\/28\/emerging-market-samsung\/\"><em>Forbes<\/em> points us<\/a> to a new survey from\u00a0mobile marketing firm Upstream showing that <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/samsung\">Samsung<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=005930.KS&amp;ql=0\">005930<\/a>) is the most popular smartphone brand for prospective buyers in Brazil, Saudi Arabia and India, while <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/nokia\">Nokia<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=nok\">NOK<\/a>) holds onto the top spot in Nigeria, where Samsung didn&#8217;t register on the survey. The survey also contained <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/28\/blackberry-subscriber-loss-analysis-401866\/\">some potentially troubling news<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/blackberry\">BlackBerry<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=bbry\">BBRY<\/a>), which only registered double-digit interest from prospective buyers in Nigeria while falling below 10% in the other three countries.\u00a0Upstream founder and CEO\u00a0Marco Veremis tells\u00a0<em>Forbes<\/em>\u00a0that BlackBerry and Nokia tend to do well in African nations because they provide &#8220;easy access to social networks and the Web&#8221; and, especially in Nokia&#8217;s case, they offer superior battery life.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/tkm5g3za--s\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the big stories to follow in 2013 will be the intensifying competition among smartphone vendors for market share in important emerging markets such as China, Brazil and India. Forbes points us to a new survey from\u00a0mobile marketing firm Upstream showing that Samsung (005930) is the most popular smartphone brand for prospective buyers in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649678","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\/7438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}