Nokia market share up to 41% in smartphones

Despite difficult economic times, Nokia managed to increase its market share in both mobile phones (from 37% to 38%), as well as in smartphones (from 39% to 41%). Since the beginning of the year, Nokia has already shipped more than 30 million Symbian based smartphones. As one of the thousands of people working with Nokia's top smartphone software, this makes me feel good. Not that there's any reason to feel complacent, on the contrary. Solutions and services run on software, and the software needs to be scalable, flexible, easy to use, intuitive and adaptable. There's work to be done to continuously improve the user experience, so that when people get the device on their hands, they'll know immediately how it works, and it feels their own. 


        
                          


Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, NOKIA CEO:
"Nokia put in a solid performance in what was another tough quarter. We increased our share of the global mobile device market sequentially to an estimated 38% and grew our smartphone market share to an estimated 41%. As a result of strong operational execution, underlying operating margins improved sequentially in all segments. Competition remains intense, but demand in the overall mobile device market appears to be bottoming out. As before, we are continuing to tightly manage our operating expenses. We are balancing short-term priorities with our longer-term growth ambitions as elements of the mobile handset, PC, internet and media industries converge to form a new industry. Consumers will increasingly expect devices and services designed as integrated solutions. To capture this opportunity we are accelerating our strategic transformation into a solutions company."

Also from the release:
Of the total industry mobile device volumes, converged mobile device industry volumes in the second quarter 2009 increased to 41.0 million units, based on Nokia's preliminary estimate, compared with an estimated 37.1 million units in the second quarter 2008, and 36.0 million units in the first quarter 2009. Our own converged mobile device volumes were 16.9 million units in the second quarter 2009, compared with 15.3 million units in the second quarter 2008 and 13.7 million units in the first quarter 2009. Nokia's share of the converged device market was an estimated 41% in the second quarter 2009, unchanged from 41% in the second quarter 2008 and up from 39% in the first quarter 2009. We shipped 4.6 million Nokia Nseries and 4.7 million Nokia Eseries devices during the second quarter 2009, up from the combined 8.2 million Nseries and Eseries devices we shipped in the first quarter 2009.

Source Nokia Q2 press release

 

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