Smartphone montage - Nokia, Apple and Android-based phones had mixedfortunes

Pushed into second place for featurephones and smartphones, the Finnish company has problems - but Android and Apple can claim laurels

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Nokia, Apple and Android-based phones had mixed fortunes in the first quarter of 2011, according to IDC

More evidence of Nokia's deepening problems have emerged, with new data showing that in the first three months of 2011 it was pushed into second place by Samsung as the biggest vendor of mobile Acer as07b41 battery handsets in western Europe, and overtaken by Apple for first place in the smartphone market in the region.

But Android was the clear winner overall, propelling handset makers which offered it to enormous growth and leaping from fourth place last year to take the lead for smartphone OS share in the quarter.

The data from IDC shows Finnish handset maker Nokia's overall sales in western Europe slipping by 10% year-on-year in a market that grew by 5% to 45m handsets, with Samsung bagging the top place with 13.2m, a 29.3% share.

Nokia was second with 12.6m, and Apple came third overall with its smartphone-only iPhone range, selling 4.4m. Research in Motion (RIM) and HTC had 3.5m. All except Nokia grew at least as fast as the market, with HTC tripling its sales and Apple and RIM both growing by nearly 50%.

In smartphones, Apple's 4.4m sale was a 49% growth year-on-year, but in a market that grew by 76% it saw its market share eroded, from 24.6% to 20.8%.

But the news was worse for Nokia which again saw a collapse in sales, down from 4.9m in the same period in 2010 to 4.2m between January and March. That meant its share fell dramatically from the market-leading 40.6% down to 19.6%. Two years ago, Nokia had a 57% share of the smartphone market. RIM and HTC were behind it with 16.5% shares, followed by Samsung.

The total smartphone Dell vostro 1520 battery market in western Europe compromised 21.2m handsets, up by 76% from the first quarter of2010. Smartphone sales made up 47% of handset sales, compared to 28% a year earlier.

Nokia has seen its market share eroded over the past few years in both smartphones and featurephones. It reached a crisis point in February when its newly appointed chief executive Stephen Elop announced that Symbian would be abandoned in favour of Microsoft's Windows Phone. However phones using that OS are not expected before October. Elop said that 150m more Symbian smartphones will be sold, but it is seeing its share being eroded dramatically, especially in developed markets where it could charge a premium.

In operating systems, IDC said that Android was the leading smartphone OS, with 35.7% market share.

Apple's iOS is next in smartphones with a 20.8% share (excluding iPod Touch and iPads), and then Nokia's Symbian Hp pavilion dv4 battery with 19.6%, and RIM with 16.5%. Last year Android was in fourth place, having just overtaken Windows Mobile - the now-defunct OS from Microsoft.

It is not clear from the data what share Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 OS had; its figures would be embedded in those of Samsung, HTC and LG, and was not broken out. Microsoft has not provided any figures for activation of phones, though some estimates put it as low as 1.5m since its launch in October. Prices of Windows Phone 7 handsets have been dropping recently, apparently as carriers and retailers try to unload stock.

"Companies like Nokia (and Ericsson in the past) may have strong brands and big market shares as Nokia always had, but can be overtaken by their competitors on a blink of an eye," said Francisco Jeronimo, IDC's European mobile devices research manager. "Nokia is one of the most recognized and appreciated brands in Europe, but Samsung was the one understanding the trends first and moving faster."

Samsung Phones Vs Nokia Phones - A True Competition Among Android AndSymbian

Samsung Phones are thee with which you can have the most adorable Android Operating system and there is n number of things which you can have with this like the Camera with the lovely pixels and is with the very high resolution. You can have the Samsung Galaxy S, which is one of the very popular Smartphone in which you can have the really cool features like the Camera which you can have with this is of 5 mega pixel and is with the very alluring look. You can have this with so giant memory which can either be of 8GB or can also be of 16GB and you can store various things in this either photographs, Videos and many more.
You can go through our website direct phone shops in which there are lots of alluring details like the deals which you can have with these samsung mobile phones . One of the Tablet which you can have Samsung Galaxy Tab in which you can have display of 7 inches and is with two Cameras one is the primary one while the other is the Secondary one which is of 1.3 mega pixel . Nokia mobile phones are there with which you can basically have the Symbian Operating system but two of its new handsets are there the Nokia N9 and Nokia N95 in which you can have very special OS the MeeGo and the Maemo 5 OS respectively.
You can have various deals with this like the Contract deal wit which you can pay the mobile phone bills at the very end the month. And there are so many free gifts like the free laptops, free DVD Player, free Digital Camera, free mobile phone accessories, free gaming consoles and various other things. There are incentives also which you can have with this like the free text, free monthly minutes with any of the mobile phone network like the Three, T-Mobile, O2, Orange, Virgin, Vodafone.

How Smart Phones Influenced The Future Of Tablets

Phones like the Blackberry and iPhone as well as the Android based smart phones rely heavily on mobile data networks and an internet connection for their information. Therefore without this access, these smart phones are almost brought to a standstill, meaning that they would not be able to operate as they are designed to operate. The latest batch of Tablet computers available on the market today also rely on these same mobile data networks, and internet access nodes that have been set up by many leading mobile network operators.

Today the internet has truly gone mobile and more people are taking their internet experiences on the road. Having all of our information rest on what is now termed the Cloud, alleviating the demands on our local hard drives as our content grows heavier. The upside is that you are able to access your personal files no matter where you are, as well as keep them safe should your computer malfunction or be lost. However it also means that we rely on these access channels like a costly 3G, 4G or wifi packages and tighter security. The concept is not new in anyway, it just took time for the technology to catchup. How many people know that the RIM Blackberry was one of the first smart phones developed to take advantage of the internet? Microsoft Windows based mobile phones were available for some time, but they found it challenging to be able to compete with the robust network that Blackberry had begun setting up. The smart phone concept saw a great leap forward with the introduction of the Apple iPhone touch phone. The iPhone uses a combination of touch screen technology a long with a vibrant app store with millions of applications to choose from to provide a truly ergonomic user friendly experience. The iPhone has also raised the bar on the sheer volume of data that smart phone users have come to demand of their devices. Apple took this a step forward with its iPad series tablet computers. The tablet concept has also long been indevelopment, but again it had to bide its time while the technology caught up to the idea. The iPhone's advances in touch technology as well as its redefinition to what such a product could do, helped the evolution and rebirth of the large tablet computer market that we are witnessing today. Again all of these devices are based around access to data networks, they rely heavily on the faster information transfer speeds that the new LTE and 4G networks are promising. With an increase in the number of gadgets we possess like a touch phone or tablet computer we now have the need to be able to sync them all together, by using the Cloud, and a stable high speed data network.

With the success of Apple's first generation iPad demonstrating a market for tablet computer, most Mobile Phones, software providers and computer manufactures raced to create their own touch screen devices. RIM creator of the Blackberry introduced the Playbook geared toward the business set, as well as offering their own BlackBerry Videos codex to store and play clips on it's Tablet. Other companies like Google and Microsoft are rushing to develop touch screen mobile operating systems, and Lenovo, Nokia, HTC , and an army of others working on the Hardware aspects of touch phones, and tablet computers. The touch phone, tablet revolution is upon us with great advances yet to come in the not to distant future.