I knew Nokia's were not that popular in America, but this is just sad:

I rarely see Nokia's higher end phones subsidized by a carrier in the states. The only recent one I can remember is the 5800 with AT&T.

It is a different market here in the US. You should see their numbers in Japan.

i dont get it.

how exactly do you conclude by this picture that nokia is not popular?
because maemo isnt listed?
i guess thats because the older nokia maemo-devices are no smartphones.

Because Symbian which has been around in the phone market far longer than Maemo is notably lower than other markets.

Symbian OS would correlate most closely to Nokia US smartphone market share. See the smallest bars?

Let's see.. Maemo smartphone penetration would be 300 devs + the 2 or 3 N900's that Nokias actually managed to ship...

ok, but the chart shows "smartphone os" market share. of 2009 propably.
as everyone knows, maemo for smartphones wasnt available until december 2009, when the n900 came out.
all other maemo-versions were not smartphone-os, because the devices they ran on were not smartphones.
the charts covers smartphone-os and not internettablet-os.

so there is nothing wrong with the chart.

Nothing new. Before North America wasn't really the most important market and big mobile phone makers like Nokial and SE could make huge profits and grow faster than rest of the tech industery with no presence in NA, but now part of Nokias problem is that NA is now catching up Europe and Asia in smartphone saturation in a big way(thanks to iphone) and Nokia is totally left out of this.

By far largest thing is that i believe E71 is only carrier supported Nokia Symbian phone and a phone that came to att 6-12 months after Europe and Asia release. This in the country where real unlocked phone market dosen't exist and they are stll ahead of Android that got several carrier subsidized phones. That said that's more about Android not being long enough in the martket. Will be just matter of time.

I'm not quoting you to "pick on you"... I'm just curious as to how big do you personally perceive Maemo's influence, sales numbers and impact to truly be in the US market.

I'm willing to bet that most analysts will invariably place Maemo into the "smartphone OS" category - probably out of laziness or misunderstanding of the platform. That's just my opinion though.

We'll see what 2010 brings. But I'm curious as to your opinion about Maemo's potential impact. Take care.