Smartphone Market Winners Revealed

Release Date 7 May, 2011 in infoSync World

Apple Pulls Ahead Of RIM In Smartphones Forbes (blog) - Brian Caulfield - 7 May, 2011 In some alternate plane of the space-time continuum dinosaurs with prehensile claws rule the Earth, and purple monkeys are their servants. In this world, by contrast, Mac maker Apple has a bigger slice of the worldwide market for ...
Smartphone Market Winners Revealed infoSync World - Sindre Lia - 7 May, 2011 Smartphone shipments for Q1 2011 reveal that the smartphone market is about to become more competitive. Who are currently the winners? "Apple has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store," ...
IDC: Consumers Snapping Up Apple, HTC, Samsung Smartphones PC Magazine - Chloe Albanesius - 7 May, 2011 The release of the Verizon iPhone and the smartphone's expansion in China helped boost Apple's first quarter shipments, pushing it ever closer to Nokia. Samsung and HTC also saw major smartphone gains, with HTC nearly surpassing the ...
Nokia Drops To Number Two Across Europe InformationWeek - Eric Zeman - 7 May, 2011 Samsung surged ahead to take the number one spot in Western Europe for all phones, while Apple surpassed Nokia in smartphone sales. By Eric Zeman InformationWeek Nokia has lost ground in its home market of Western Europe, and fell to the number two ...
	Samsung, HTC and Apple fuel smartphone market growth USA Today - Stan Schroeder - 7 May, 2011 The worldwide smartphone market has grown 79.7% year over year, with smartphone vendors shipping a total of 99.6 million units in in the first quarter of 2011, market research firm IDC reports. Although Nokia is still the ...
Apple closing in on Nokia as smartphone leader CNET - Lance Whitney - 7 May, 2011 As Nokia continues to shed market share, second-place Apple is inching closer to become the world's dominant smartphone vendor, according to IDC's latest Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. For the first quarter of 2011, ...
NORDIC STOCKS - Factors to watch on May 6 Reuters - ‎May 5, 2011‎ Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) rose to No. 1 spot in the Western European cellphone market in the first-quarter, overtaking long-term market leader Nokia on its home turf, research firm IDC said late on Thusday. Norway's biggest banking group posted ...
Samsung, HTC Make Gains on Apple in Booming Smartphone Field Bloomberg - Adam Satariano - ‎May 5, 2011‎ Samsung Electronics Co. and HTC Corp. (HTJ) led the smartphone industry in sales growth last quarter, underscoring the rise of Google Inc. (GOOG)'s Android operating system as a leading challenger to ...
Apple Gains More Share In Smartphone Market Wall Street Journal - Dan Gallagher - ‎May 5, 2011‎ Apple Inc. (AAPL) saw its share of the global smartphone market continue to climb in the first quarter, closing the gap on market-leader Nokia Corp. (NOK), according to data from IDC. In a report Thursday, IDC said Apple ended the ...
iPhone gains on Nokia smartphones for global crown Computerworld - Matt Hamblen - ‎May 5, 2011‎ Computerworld - Apple's iPhone is inching closer to Nokia's top spot in smartphones globally, according to first-quarter 2011 results reported by IDC on Thursday. With the iPhone in the second spot, BlackBerry maker Research In Motion ...
Samsung overtakes Nokia in Western Europe - IDC Reuters - Tarmo Virki, Jane Merriman - ‎May 5, 2011‎ HELSINKI, May 5 (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) rose to the No. 1 spot in the Western European cellphone market in the first-quarter, overtaking long-term market leader Nokia (NOK1V.HE) on its home turf, research firm IDC said. ...
	Android 'clear smartphone leader' Stuff.co.nz - ‎May 5, 2011‎ Google's Android platform rose to a dominant position in the smartphone market in the first quarter, research firm Canalys said, increasing its lead over struggling Nokia. The news underscores how quickly Google, which offers its software to phone ...
Android Market Share 35%, Windows Phone 2.5% InformationWeek (blog) - Ed Hansberry - ‎May 5, 2011‎ Android is, of course, sold by a number of vendors like Motorola, HTC, LG, and Samsung. Every vendor, according to a report from Canalys, sold at least 3 million units. There was interesting tidbit in the report that gave a clue to what Windows Phone ...
Android Captures More of the Smartphone Market PCWorld - Ben Camm-Jones - ‎May 5, 2011‎ Market research firm Canalys has given Google's Android OS a 35 percent share of the smartphone market for the first quarter of 2011. Nokia had a share of 24 percent, with iOS on 19 percent. ...
	Smartphone market mounts by 79.7% year-over-year in 1Q11 TechShout! - 7 May, 2011 By News Editor - Nokia may have announced Windows Phone as its mobile OS of choice to raised eyebrows. But this decision doesn't seem to have much affected its share in the market as yet. IDC studies say that the smartphone market grew by 79.7% ...
	IDC: Smartphone shipments up 80 percent in last year Digitaltrends.com - Geoff Duncan - 7 May, 2011 Market analysis firm IDC pas published its Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker data for the first quarter of 2011, and the results show consumers are jumping on the smartphone bandwagon like never before. According to IDC, worldwide sales of ...
	Apple Outsmarts Nokia News Box - Kate Norfolk - 7 May, 2011 Apple continues to sell more smartphones and gradually comes closer and closer to surpass Nokia as the smartphone market leader, with the help of the innovative Iphone. In the first quarter of 2011 Apple shipped 18.7 million iphones, compared to only ...
	Will Apple beat Nokia? Daily News Engine - Kayla Phantom - 7 May, 2011 IDC's latest Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker shows that although Nokia still rules the smartphone market, second place Apple is getting closer and closer in order to challenge the first place position Nokia has secured. ...
Apple closing in on Nokia's as top smartphone maker Ubergizmo (blog) - George Wong - 7 May, 2011 Despite all the hate (and love) for the iPhone, you gotta admit one thing �" it sells. And it sells very well. According to a recent report released by the IDC, it looks like Apple is closing the gap between them ...
	Samsung, HTC and Apple all help smartphone market grow Top Tech Reviews - Steve McBrian - 7 May, 2011 According to the most recent numbers, ownership of smartphones in the world have grown almost 80 percent in the past year, with smartphone makers shipping out nearly 100 million of them in the first call in 2011. The biggest manufacturer is still Nokia ...
	Apple to Overtake Nokia as Top Phone Maker Mobiledia - Kendra Srivastava - 7 May, 2011 Apple is on pace to overtake Nokia and become the world's largest phone maker, amid increasing competition from rival Google. The Cupertino, Calif.-based company captured nearly 20 percent to challenge ...
Apple Battles Nokia for World Smartphone Domination NBC Bay Area (blog) - Barbara E. Hernandez - 7 May, 2011 In 2011's first quarter, Apple shipped 18.7 million smartphones which amounts to about 18.7 percent of marketshare, a 114.4 percent leap from this time last year. Nokia, still the global smartphone leader at 24.3 percent of marketshare, dropped about ...
Nokia Is Hosed, and Time Is Running Out BNET (blog) - Erik Sherman - 7 May, 2011 Erik Sherman is a freelance writer, editor, and photographer. His work has appeared in such publications as the New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, Fortune, Inc, Newsweek Japan, the Financial Times, Chief Executive, ...
Huge smartphone market growth isn't helping T-Mobile Android Apps Appolicious - 7 May, 2011 The smartphone market continues to balloon at a huge rate all over the world, helping manufacturers like Apple (AAPL), Samsung (005930.KS) and HTC (2498.TW) to sell millions of phones during the past year. New data released by research firm IDC shows ...
Global smartphone market sees yet another quarter of astounding growth RCR Wireless - Sylvie Barak - 7 May, 2011 The worldwide smartphone market saw resounding growth year over year in the first quarter of 2011 with market research firm IDC reporting 79.7% growth, which it credits to lower prices, release of highly anticipated models, wide availability of older ...
	Samsung's Aggressive Push in Mobile Paying Off in IDC Poll Gotta Be Mobile - Chuong Nguyen - 7 May, 2011 IDC Research has concluded that the smartphone market is growing nearly 20% in the first quarter of this year and that Nokia may be ceding market share as the world's largest phone maker by volume is transitioning its smartphone line to Windows Phone 7 ...
	Apple advances on Nokia in smartphone market NASDAQ - 7 May, 2011 If an apple a day keeps the doctor away, increased consumption clearly is doing something for intelligence and smarts - not to mention smartphones. The Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker indicates the Finland-based company shipped 12.6 percent ...
	Chart of the Week: Apple challenging Nokia as top smartphone maker GeekWire - Todd Bishop - 7 May, 2011 Much is made these days about the smartphone operating system wars, as Apple's iOS and Google's Android fight for position against the likes of Research in Motion's BlackBerry OS and face a potential long-term challenge from Microsoft's upstart Windows ...
Nokia loses mobile top spot in home market New Media Age (subscription) - Ronan Shields - 7 May, 2011 Nokia has lost the top spot in the mobile sector to Samsung and Apple across western Europe, according to research by IDC. Samsung now commands a 29.3% share of the Western European mobile market after its shipment volume increased 5.3% year on year to ...
Report: Apple, Samsung, HTC Drive Smartphone Market Wireless Week - Andrew Berg - 7 May, 2011 The worldwide smartphone market grew 79.7 percent year over year in the first quarter of 2011, with Apple closing in on Nokia and Samsung growing in leaps and bounds, according to the International Data Corporation ...