Computer Profile analyzes smartphone market

Blackberry preserves largest business smartphone market share, Apple and Android IOS grow

Breda, April 6, 2011 - Analysis of Computer Profile , the information provider for the ICT sector, shows that BlackBerry is still an important part of the corporate smartphone market does. Anno March 2011 show that 45 percent of business smartphones running on the operating system developed by Canada's Research In Motion. The Microsoft operating systems together, Windows Mobile 5, Windows Mobile 6 and Windows 7 Phone, with over one quarter of business smartphones, the most common competitive platform. This is evident from recent survey by Computer Business Profile for smartphones. Over the past 12 months conducted interviews with Computer Profile 3200 companies and institutions from the Dutch business market by at least 50 employees. The analysis is based on the 68,000 identified smartphones with these organizations.

Symbian OS is still running at just over one in five business smartphones. This percentage is expected to decline rapidly in the near future. Nokia was announced in February for smartphones to go out to Windows Mobile. The other carriers of Symbian, Sony Ericsson and Samsung smartphones are already switched on both Android and Windows Mobile / Phone 7. Apple IOS, iPhone, occurs at about 7 percent of business smartphones. At a modest number, but compared with six months ago nearly doubled.

Smartphone Mobile Operating Systems to use and segments
The use of business smartphones is the rule, absence of smartphones is now the exception. In total, 71 percent of business establishments with 50 or more employees smartphones. Segments relatively often smartphones in use include the government and the utilities sector (utility organizations).

The influence of the size of the business establishment in the presence of smartphones is limited. Thus, the use of smartphones in companies with 50 to 100 employees at 67 percent after the rate gradually increases to about 75 percent at companies with a thousand or more employees.

The use of different mobile operating systems within the various sectors shows that Blackberry (RIM OS) in various sizes with approximately equal frequency in use, the mobile operating systems from Microsoft more common in large than in small organizations prevented and the Symbian platform right image shows the opposite, namely a higher penetration in smaller than larger organizations.

Both Apple and Android IOS are relatively new to the business smartphone market.For both, the incidence of the fast growing Dutch company sites. Six months ago we saw hardly any sites (just under 1%) with Android smartphones, Android now we find business units to approximately 4 percent of the sites. Android is the most popular in education and IT & Telecom sector. Apple IOS quintupled penetration in the past six years to a total of 15 percent. We take these smartphones relatively often in the service sector, companies in the IT & Telecom and education.

Mobile Operating Systems by service provider
The mobile service provider plays a role in the mobile market sharing systems. The composition of the business subscriptions and offers in this field, the market conditions they may (also) influence.

Segmentation of the mobile operating systems of smart phones to the mobile phone operator allows the interviewee organizations that share the park RIM OS (Blackberry) under the Vodafone customer is highest. T-Mobile and Telfort customers have a relatively small proportion park for this platform.

T-Mobile customers are relatively high contrast of smartphones with Apple IOS. Not surprising given the unique position that ISP has long had on the Dutch market for this platform. In addition, T-Mobile a range of business users of smartphones with the Windows Mobile platform. Also notable is the high proportion park Symbian devices that Telfort is found. Here is perhaps the strategy of KPN visible in its mother's choice and distribution of its solutions on the different brands KPN claims.

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Mobile phone market is growing phenomenally

Mobile phone market is growing phenomenally

November 11, 2010 - That there be unusual many smartphones sold is 'old news'. Yet there were new numbers which once again underlined that the phone market, and the smartphone market as a part thereof, in quarter three this year has experienced a phenomenal growth.

In quarter three were 417 million units sold worldwide. This is 35% over the same quarter last year. It is already the third quarter with good figures for the phone market. And still, the growing market demand.Interestingly, the growth of the smartphone market. In Q3 of 2010 were more than 81 million smartphones worldwide sales. The smartphone market almost doubled over with a growth of 96% compared to Q3 2009.

Smartphone market top five
Despite the hefty increase in smartphone sales remained the top three manufacturers of unchanged. Nokia is still the number one when it comes to the number of smartphone sales, but was nevertheless the loser. Nokia's market share was because a big blow. The manufacturer lost yet again this quarter, 8.5% of the market compared with Q3 2009. The top three are also still being added by Samsung and LG.But these manufacturers saw their market share fall by 2% and 3.7%. The handsets were popular manufacturer of Apple saw its share rise by 1.1 percent. Apple runs this top five in the global smartphone market and RIM thereby expels four of place.

Nokia, Samsung and Apple
Manufacturer Nokia shipped 110.4 million units in Q3. The manufacturer, however, faced with a shortage of telephone parts, creating a shortage of cheap cameras. Consumers bought more money or expensive equipment, which offset the sales of Nokia. Nokia also has not much to it through its operating system Symbian, which seems to be slowly pushed out by the Android OS and IOS.

Manufacturer Samsung contrast, had an excellent third quarter and 71.1 million units sold. The overall market share of Samsung in the mobile phone market, although decreasing, but the smartphone market share rose to 10% by now. This Samsung is mainly due to sales of 1 million Bada smartphones and less than 6.6 million phones running on Android. Because these sales are a blow to Samsung Android's largest supplier in the world. Worldwide, the Android phones accounted for a 25.5% stake in the smartphone market.

The sales of iPhone exceed all smartphone sales. The iPhone was sold as many as 13.5 million times. And then it is to remember that while Apple has had several problems with the supply of the iPhone. The device is now sold in 89 countries.

Future
Although sales of the phone market are positive and the smartphone market is the largest growth since 2000 has threatened the party with the figures month to counter attack. This is because the strong demand for smartphones lot from the manufacturers. The smartphone industry will, as it now stands, will face shortages of components smartphone. Samsung did so earlier in the production of AMOLED displays is not going to keep up as demand continues to rise. It is expected that the phone sales to grow sharply lower in 2011 with the advent of the Tablet PC. Gartner expects that in 2011 54.8 million tablets sold will be.

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Turning point: more smartphones sold than PCs

Turning point: more smartphones sold than PCs

Figures show that the PC and the 'fixed web' has had its day.

For the first time in a quarter more smartphones than PCs sold. And that image will only increase, says market researcher IDC. This year there are so many smartphones for the mass market that even expensive equipment at low prices available.

New market figures from IDC show that the PC, and perhaps the 'fixed web ", has had its day. In the fourth quarter of 2010 were 92.1 million PCs were sold worldwide, an increase of 2.7 percent.In contrast, the number of smartphones sold in the last months of last year rose 87.2 percent to 100.9 million.

Nokia's new Symbian was 3 ^ 5 million copies sold, Windows 7 phones 1.5 million times.

While the mobile operating system Symbian is the market leader among smartphones, Android is Google's rapid rise. Certainly one quarter of all new smart phones running on Android. Phone makers need to invest a cent in software because Google already accounts for those costs.Manufacturers are not only competing with various hardware. That usually means: resolution of the camera (s), multi-core processors, surface touch screen, memory size and - sometimes - slick adaptation of the user.

IDC sees a trend that is aangeslingerd by Android: "We expect that this year more smartphones come out for the middle and bottom of the market. In the same way even toptelefoons at lower prices on the market. "

The researcher makes no geographical breakdown of sales figures of smart phones. It is assumed that the cheaper smartphones also will pave a path to emerging countries like Brazil, Russia, China and India.

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Thanks to Double Android smartphone market, says Ovum Research

Thanks to Double Android smartphone market, says Ovum Research

Meanwhile it is becoming old hat to hear analysts spit with Android smartphone figures as a central theme, but here's one more for good measure. Research firm Ovum has taken a look at the current smartphone market and predicts that worldwide shipments will double to 653 million by 2016. Where will most of the growth come from? A speculated 38 percent owned by the Android Market, which is presented as the number one platform to connect that time.

The report goes to the place of Apple in the second with a much smaller 17.5 percent slice of the pie, while Ovum is banking on a partnership Nokia and Microsoft both help and hurt, leaving the combined entity at 17.2 percent . That still puts them in the third and especially RIM's BlackBerry, but it's a steep drop in Nokia's current top dog position.

It's all speculation for now. Heck, is not the world would end in 2012 anyway? Here's the full press release:

Android to doubling of the smartphone market driving 2016

• Worldwide shipments hit 653 million by 2016
• Android will take 38% market share compared to Apple's 17.5%
• Nokia-Microsoft deal again pulls the smartphone landscape

The global smartphone market to double in size by 2016 for shipments hit 653 million euros, Ovum voorspelt in een nieuwe prognose *. Android will drive the growth and will emerge as the dominant platform dramatically outperforms Apple with a massive 20.5 per cent ahead of market share, says the independent telecom analyst.

Ovum voorspelt dat smartphones zal groeien met een samengesteld jaarlijks groeipercentage van14.5 percent between 2010 and 2016 and will be responsible for about 40 percent of the market for mobile phones. Asia-Pacific is the largest region, shipping just over 200 million units in 2016.Western Europe and North America will remain strong markets with 175 million and 165 million shipments respectively.

Ovum principal analyst Adam Leach said: "The smartphone market will see a significant growth over the next five years, again better than the broader market for mobile phones. We will see dramatic shifts in dominance of smartphone software platforms, Android storming into the lead with 38 percent market share compared to Apple IOS '17.5 percent by 2016.

"The success of the Android platform is driven by the large number of hardware vendors to support both high and low ends of the market."

According to Ovum forecast, net achter Apple IOS zal Windows Phone with 17.2 procent marktaandeel door 2016, followed by the BlackBerry OS, with 16.5 percent.

Leach continued: "We expect at least one other platform for mainstream success within the expected period to achieve. This may be an existing player in the market, such as Bada, WebOS, or MeeGo, or it may be a newcomer to the market. "

According to Leach, the partnership between Nokia and Microsoft has redefined the smartphone market and will result in a significant reduction in shipments of Symbian-based phones like the Nokia Phone transitions to Windows as its primary smartphone platform. However, Nokia still expects ship 150 million Symbian-based handsets so there will be 2012 and shipments outside in some regions in 2016.

Leach continued: "For Microsoft the deal creates a committed partner that handset the potential to be a mainstream Windows phone smartphone platform. The risk for Microsoft is that other handset makers can not choose to compete with Nokia and can turn their backs on Windows Phone. "

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Blackberry continues leading business smartphone market

Blackberry continues leading business smartphone market

BlackBerry still has an important part of the business smartphone market share: 45 percent of business smartphones running this operating system. This analysis shows Computer Profile, information provider for the IT industry.

The Microsoft operating system Windows Mobile 5, Windows Mobile 6 and Windows 7 Phone, with over one quarter of business smartphones, the most common competitive platform. This is evident from recent survey by Computer Business Profile for smartphones. Over the past 12 months conducted interviews with Computer Profile 3200 companies and institutions from the Dutch business market by at least 50 employees. The analysis is based on the 68,000 identified smartphones with these organizations.

Symbian OS is still running at just over one in five business smartphones.This percentage is expected to decline rapidly in the near future. Nokia was announced in February for smartphones to go out to Windows Mobile.The other carriers of Symbian, Sony Ericsson and Samsung smartphones are already switched on both Android and Windows Mobile / Windows Phone 7. Apple IOS, iPhone, occurs at about 7 percent of business smartphones. At a modest number, but compared with six months ago nearly doubled.

Smartphone Mobile Operating Systems to use and segments
The use of business smartphones is the rule, absence of smartphones is now the exception. In total, 71 percent of business establishments with 50 or more employees smartphones. Segments relatively often smartphones in use include the government and the utilities sector (utility organizations).The influence of the size of the business establishment in the presence of smartphones is limited. Thus, the use of smartphones in companies with 50 to 100 employees at 67 percent after the rate gradually increases to about 75 percent at companies with a thousand or more employees.

The use of different mobile operating systems within the various sectors shows that BlackBerries in various sizes with approximately equal frequency in use, the mobile operating systems from Microsoft more common in large than in small organizations prevented and the Symbian platform, the opposite image shows be, namely a higher penetration in smaller than larger organizations.

Both Apple and Android IOS are relatively new to the business smartphone market. For both, the incidence of the fast growing Dutch company sites.Six months ago we saw hardly any sites (just under 1%) with Android smartphones, Android now we find business units to approximately 4 percent of the sites. Android is the most popular in education and IT & Telecom sector. Apple IOS quintupled penetration in the past six years to a total of 15 percent. We take these smartphones relatively often in the service sector, companies in the IT & Telecom and education.

Mobile Operating Systems by service provider
The mobile service provider plays a role in the mobile market sharing systems. The composition of the business subscriptions and offers in this field, they can market relations (also) beïnvloeden.Segmentatie of mobile operating systems of smart phones to the mobile phone operator allows the interviewee organizations show that the park share RIM OS (Blackberry) under the Vodafone customers is greatest. T-Mobile and Telfort customers have a relatively small proportion park for this platform.T-Mobile customers are relatively high contrast of smartphones with Apple IOS. Not surprising given the unique position that ISP has long had on the Dutch market for this platform. In addition, T-Mobile a range of business users of smartphones with the Windows Mobile platform. Also notable is the high proportion park Symbian devices that Telfort is found. Here is perhaps the strategy of KPN visible in its mother's choice and distribution of its solutions on the different brands KPN claims.

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Developing for Windows ?

Developing for Windows Mobile?

If you develop applications for the mobile market, that (besides web applications) applications for smartphones.Smartphones are having a system that allows for a self-written software to install. There are different types of operating systems, like ordinary computer market. And, just as in ordinary computer market, you can develop your software is best for the most popular operating system.

The question that every mobile developer so now is: "For what operating system we must develop mobile applications?

The answer is simple: "Ask yourself the difficult question, but building a web application." A web application is platform independent and future-oriented. Is a web application for performance reasons is not an option, then you'd agree to look at the global smartphone sales by operating system.

Click image to enlarge (Source: Canalys)

These figures show that Symbian's market leader in the mobile operating system and Apple with its iPhone, recently has claimed a piece of market share. Based on these data it seems logical to choose the Symbian platform to develop software for the mobile market. But is it the best choice? That depends on what your target audience.

Mid-range or high end

Unlike its competitors, Symbian is also installed on one major type of mid-range smartphones. These are products with a huge turnover, a small color screen, no GPS and no touch screen. Approximately 85% of all Symbian phones in Europe are offered falls into this category.Some critics say:

"Nokia does somehow fake just by giving the Smartphone Sells Nearly All Their mid-to upper-class S60 phones."

Such critics refer to the market for high-end smartphones. A market with smaller numbers, but higher margins. In that market, also called the market of "mobile computer", is Symbian which is much less well represented.

To illustrate, here are a random selection from the range of Symbian.The "Nokia N95 is a high-end smartphone, while the rest clear mid-range smartphones.

Nokia 5500 Sport Nokia 6290 Nokia E50 Nokia N93i

Nokia N95

The mid-range smartphones do not usually have built-in GPS. Still, we expect that before too long these mid-range phones also have this functionality. So you develop location-based software for mid-range smartphones, Symbian has over a large potential market, especially over time. Symbian is because almost every ruler in the mid-range smartphone market.

But you develop a complex application, you can not handle the small screen and lack of a touchscreen and you must focus on the high-end smartphones.

America = high-end

Of course it is interesting to see the figures by area. We have estimated that 85% of Symbian products in Europe mid-range, while the competition almost exclusively high-end products aanbeidt. For convenience, we assume that all Symbian products are equally popular (probably actually the mid-range products is much more popular than the high end). This results in the graph where EMEA [1] the overall smartphone market in Europe. EMEA [2] is the estimated high-end market in Europe, questioned the size of the Symbian market share can be put.

Click image to enlarge (Source: Canalys)

ROW to the rest of the world. We see that the iPhone market share is entirely due to the huge success in North America. We also see that Symbian with many mid-range products is not got a foothold in America, while high-end iPhone is doing very well there.

If we take America and Europe we see the following estimated distribution in the high-end smartphone market:

Click image to enlarge (Source: Canalys)

They remain speculations, but I see the high-end market is favorable for Windows Mobile. Of course there are strong product concepts, like the iPhone and Blackberry, but the question is whether their breath long enough.

The year 2008

It is expected that 2008 will be running Google launched Android.These analysts could well become the new star in the sky and can share their sovereignty. In addition, the iPhone in 2008 available to the general European public. This means even more success for Apple?Who knows. 2008 is at least an exciting year.

Conclusion

Develop your mid-range smartphone, then you should opt for Symbian.They are market leader and virtually no competition.

However comlexe Develop your applications for high-end smartphones for Europe and North America, then it is different.Windows Mobile currently seem to have the eennagrootste share.Strong product concepts, like the iPhone and Blackberry, albeit currently have a large market share, but the question is whether their breath long enough. Windows Mobile seems this is a solid choice.

During 2008, Google and Apple, however, their strengths. This may shed new light on the matter. I'm curious.

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More than smartphones sold dumbphones

More than smartphones sold dumbphones

During the Television fair, which has begun this morning in Nieuwegein, research firm GFK has some fun facts about the Dutch market released. The company focused on the emergence of smartphones and tablets and was able to report that from now on every week on more smartphones than the counter dumbphones.

In November was once a peak in that direction shown because of the launch of the iPhone with Vodafone and KPN, but since week 9 of this year, the market share of smartphones already one month consistently over 50En that trend as it now look only increase. The monthly course of the smartphone market share has a clear growth rates.

Throughout 2011 the company still predicts that smartphones will be in a minority: 2,880,000 3,050,000 dumbphones towards smartphones. This is for the Dutch market, hence a total size of about 6 million units coming.

About GFK tablets reported that in the past 250,000 years in the Netherlands over the counter are gone. That includes the sale of e-readers, but excluding the imported equipment. How much that in 2011 the company will not dare to say.

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Patent pending split smartphone