19% of world-wide phone shipments now smartphones

One of the biggest and most-recurring questions is the question about smartphone market share: what is a smartphone, and how many of them are sold.

Mobile Business Briefing now reports the following:

Smartphones made up 19 percent of total worldwide handset volumes during the quarter, up from 15 percent a year earlier. … Nokia managed to capture a 40 percent market share, which Strategy Analytics said was due to the Finnish vendor’s “competitive pricing, a huge retail presence and heavy promotion of its portfolio of cost-competitive Symbian models …

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Meanwhile, the firm described BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion’s (RIM)’s 40 percent annual growth rate as “relatively sluggish” due to fierce competition … Apple was deemed to have had a mixed second quarter. “Apple’s iPhone shipments, revenues and profitability continued to outperform, but public criticism of the company is mounting,” …

Given that these figures are world-wide numbers, I am not sure how much longer this growth can be sustained…

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