Articles Tagged “Symbian”
Why Android Could Reach 70% Market Share in 2012
by Lucian Armasu on Nov 01, 2011 1 Comments">1
The graph above shows Android’s growth over the past 18 months in UK. Suffice to say that its growth is staggering. In 18 months it has managed to gain about 40% market share (50% totally), mostly at Nokia and Symbian’s expense, but also at the expense of Apple who is now stagnating around 20% or so. RIM has also remained more or less stable so far, but as I mentioned in the previous article, this will be short-lived if Blackberries don’t become competitive with Android phones and iPhones soon. Android’s 50% market has also been achieved and surpassed in USA, …
Android Causes Symbian to Lose 19% Market Share in UK in Just One Year
by Lucian Armasu on Sep 05, 2011 3 Comments">3
If you still don’t think Android is the future not only of most high-end smartphones, but also of most low-end ones, where Nokia has historically dominated, then this should throw some cold water on you. A new research shows Android is now on 47% of all new smartphones in UK, where Symbian has only 7.2% left, which is down 19 points from last year’s 26% market share. One fifth of the UK smartphone market, or 70% of Nokia’s market in smartphones gone in one year. Just like that. Over the years when Nokia started losing market share to Android and …
Android growth report for Asia
by James Tromans on Nov 24, 2010 0 Comments">0
GfK Marketing Services Japan Ltd. have released figures that fall squarely inline with Gartner, reporting that Android OS is already the most popular in the US and has recently overtaken Symbian as the most popular smartphone software in eastern Asia. These figures are based on Q3 reports from this year. “Smartphones are the key drivers of the telecommunications industry at this moment. GfK’s retail audit findings are showing impressive, almost three-fold increase in value of the industry when we compare sales figures from the latest quarter to the same quarter* a year ago,” said Mr Gerard Tan, Regional Account Director …
Google’s Android to eclipse Nokia’s Symbian in 2012
by James Tromans on Sep 27, 2010 0 Comments">0
The Technology Fortune blog from CNN is reporting that the Android OS will out-weigh Symbian in 2012. The information comes via an analyst company named ‘informa’. According to principal analyst Malik Kamal-Saadi, Nokia will suffer most from this trend. This is in part because they have the most to lose. “Informa expects that the market share of Symbian, from total smartphone users, to drop significantly from 53 per cent in 2009 to 32 per cent in 2015. In terms of sales, smartphones powered by Android are expected to surpass these of Symbian as early as 2012,” he said. We have …
Android shipments increase 886%
by James Tromans on Aug 03, 2010 1 Comments">1
The BBC has recently published an article quoting data from Canalys analytic firm regarding the staggering growth of Android. Sure, in the past you may have read blog posts and articles here and elsewhere outlining the speed Android has taken a firm hold of the smartphone market. However, it is rare that the BBC will state facts and figures on these types of thing. You can bet your bottom dollar that there has been a decent amount of due diligence when checking out these numbers. Comparing Q2 of 2009 with Q2 or 2010, Canalys reveal that Android smartphone shipments have …
Western Europe shuns Android, embraces Symbian
by Susan Ellery on Dec 07, 2009 0 Comments">0
Research firm IDC crunched the numbers and came to the conclusion that Android’s popularity is lagging in Western Europe. Market share of smartphones running Android rose from 4.2% to its current level of 5.4%, an increase that is smaller than expected. Symbian remains the dominant OS in the region, controlling 48% of the market. All is not doom and gloom for Android as much of Android’s perceived poor performance may be due to a lack of available hardware. With Android handsets from LG, Motorola, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, and more slated for launch in 2010, Android’s fortunes may change. We’re rooting …
Adobe Flash 10 for Android not coming this month – or anytime soon
by Michael Oryl on Oct 05, 2009 2 Comments">2
Today Adobe announced that it plans on releasing developer versions and, later, open beta versions of its Flash Player 10.1 for Windows Mobile and Palm webOS smartphones by the end of this year, but that Android won’t even get a beta until sometime next year – 2010. That’s a far cry from what we heard from the company in June, which led folks to believe that we’d see the Open Screen Project’s Flash 10 player for smartphones, including Android, this month. Heck, now it is saying that it won’t be until next year when Android gets even a beta version …
Android Market sales & AdMob release July Mobile statistics
by James Tromans on Sep 02, 2009 1 Comments">1
Every month mobile advertisement metrics company ‘AdMob’ release world-wide statistics on smartphone requests by OS. The short summary is that Android is still growing, and the Google operating system has now claimed 7% of the world smartphone market share. This puts it on a level par with RIM OS, together accounting for 14%. Overall, Android grew 40% and much of this growth can be attributed to the UK market where Android requests are growing rapidly.
Guardian: Nokia bringing Android in September. Nokia: No way
by Michael Oryl on Jul 06, 2009 0 Comments">0
The UK’s Guardian is reporting that Nokia is going to show its first Android powered smartphone at an event in September of this year. The site quotes anonymous “industry insiders” as being the source for the information. Considering that Nokia developed S60, the most popular smartphone system on the planet, and also has its own open-source Maemo OS being developed (and don’t forget its recent agreement to co-develop Moblin with Intel), this seems like pure fantasy. Nokia appears to agree, having put out a statement through Reuters. [via EngadgetMobile]
It’s official: Motorola drops Linux Java and Symbian UIQ, embraces Android
by Darcy LaCouvee on Oct 30, 2008 2 Comments">2
In the company’s quarterly earnings call, Motorola co-CEO Sanjay Jha confirmed that he is reducing the number of cell phone platforms that his company supports. Symbian OS and the UIQ user interface, as seen on devices like the Motorola Z10, will no longer be used except for devices that the company has already committed to building. Motorola’s own Linux Java platform (originally called JUIX) suffers the same fate. Jha said that his company will use Windows Mobile and Android for its mid-tier and high-end handsets for both consumers and enterprise. That’s great news for newcomer Android. The less good news …
Motorola to drop Symbian, focus on Android for the high-end
by Michael Oryl on Oct 29, 2008 0 Comments">0
According to a Wall Street Journal story, Motorola’s new CEO, Sanjay Jha, will announce tomorrow that his company will focus on the Android platform for its top end handsets. While Moto will continue to use its own platform for lower end devices, and will also continue to use Windows Mobile for some of its smartphones, the other platforms, such as UIQ on Symbian, will be dropped. Jha had told employees earlier in the year that the company was going to support only three platforms in the future, though he had not indicated which three would survive. It is common knowledge …
Microsoft sees the light, starts work on its own app store
by Darcy LaCouvee on Sep 01, 2008 0 Comments">0
This isn’t really directly Android related, but it is interesting to see that Microsoft has just posted a job description on a Seattle job-hunting site that describes a position as a lead for its “Skymarket” project for Windows Mobile 7. If Apple, Google, and Microsoft are all going to have integrated app stores, it seems likely that Nokia and friends will have to follow suit in the not so distant future. [Read]
ANALYST: Symbian and Android to merge. US: Ummm, doubt it.
by Darcy LaCouvee on Jul 25, 2008 0 Comments">0
Information week is reporting that analyst firm J. Gold Associates is saying that it expects Nokia’s newly open sourced S60 UI and Symbian OS and Google’s Android are going merge starting in the next “three to six months.” J. Gold states that the merger makes sense because they are both open source and the move would make things easier on developers as well as prove that Nokia’s open source intentions are more than just a PR stunt. J. Gold said that all of this would mean an increase in the number of applications available to end users. The firm seems …
Analyst predicts 17.1 million Android phones in ’09 – thanks, China
by Darcy LaCouvee on Jul 21, 2008 0 Comments">0
Bill Hughes of market research firm In-Stat is predicting that 17.1 million Google Android OS based devices will be sold in 2009, nearly double what he is predicting for world-wide Apple iPhone sales. He believes that the Chinese market will be the driving force behind Android adoption, with its 1 billion potential cell phone subscribers. Hughes says that the fact that the Android OS is free will be “very attractive in Asia.” Hughes also thinks that the Chinese government’s plans to push 3G services based on its largely home-grown TD-SCDMA technology will give Linux powered devices the upper hand over …
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