Check out the article here:

http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/news/...figures_no.php

Looks like all the Symbian bashing wasn't justified... or is "it" supposted to happen in the future? I admit that the year 2010 will be a tough one for Symbian, at least the beginning of the year without a hardware accelerated UI in Symbian^2. But thing will only be better afterwards... it looks like Symbian will stabilize itself around the 30 % mark, if not more.

The mid-end smartphones will most likely be completely dominated by Symbian, while the high-end ones will see other alternative OS (with the exceptions of Omnia HD and Satio). It's still unclear whether Nokia will aim to market Symbian as a low-to-mid-end only OS, as their device line-up has indicated (unlike Samsung and Sony Ericsson, whom might as well drop Symbian anytime soon). However, if that's the case, then there'll be some place on the market for Maemo for sure.

As predicted earlier, Maemo will most likely gain market share towards the 5 % by the end of 2012, while Symbian will remain dominant overall (not considering the price of the devices). It will certainly be interesting to see whether Maemo ever becomes a direct competitor to Symbian, which might be the case in 2011 with the launch of the fully Qt-supported Symbian^4.


As for other OS, nothing really unexpected happened, apart from the decline of "other OS" (which doesn't count the other big boys):

- Symbian remains dominant at more than 46 % share
- RIM (Blackberry) remains at a distant second place with a 20 % share
- Apple's (Iphone) 17 % share remains unchanged, the success of the platform has satured
- Microsoft (WinMo) sees a huge decline to a narrow 8 % share
- Google (Android) passes the 3 % mark for the first time
- Others' (WebOS, LiMo etc.) share almost halves to 13 %

Hahaha wish I could go around the so called "expert" blogs and say "OWNED!!!"

Sorry, couldn't resist.

The thing is, something like 80-90% of mobile device sales are low end. Symbian is really the only smartphone platform that's getting even close to low end in terms of price, so it's almost by default going to dominate in terms of market share.

For example the Nokia 5530 (a fairly new Symbian touchscreen phone) is now about 160 euros unlocked, compared to 500-600 euros unlocked for most non-Symbian touch devices. They're in a totally different league, they cannot possibly be aimed at the same set of customers.

Let me tell you guys a story, may be a bit simplified, but I hope it gets the point across.

Some time ago, there was a man that observed a particular market. It was incipient, it was underdeveloped, and mainly dedicated to produce devices of regular/low quality and high cost to a wealthy market.

He believed that there was a potential, very profitable, mass market for devices that could combine simplicity, quality and affordability.

He worked on his vision, and eventually it came to fruition. He became very rich and the device he made changed the world.

The man was Henry Ford.
The device was the Model T.

no mention in engadget and or gizmodo

BUT... when they want to spell doom in nokias market share they even put an n97 with a finger print in blood...

they are so damn biased to USA that (and US companies) that this doesnt make the headlines.

When the Nokia 5230 get’s out it will be even cheaper… and they are not low end, they all have multitasking OS, a thing that iphone misses.

The most surprising part is that iPhone is basically not growing anymore. That really shocked me, as it comes much earlier than it was expected. The iPhone 3Gs was a mild upgrade, I think Apple calculated it correctly, that competition is far away in usability - but then why is it not growing anymore?

For Symbian, that 17 million sold contains only 9 million N and E-series phones of Nokia, while it includes e.g. the 5800 (3 mio). Nokia is simply extending the base for Symbian, so its "smartphone" OS is spreading across the portfolio and keeps the numbers up. It seems to be mostly number-crunching, not to lose to Apple and RIM until 2011, when real increase would be possible.

For closing, number-crunching means that Nokia will not push Maemo at the expense of Symbian numbers, IMHO.

Please Ignore those college dropouts who managed to turn their web browsing addiction to a career in blogging.

There is a reason why the little island that is the UK has 4 universities out of the top 6. I've had the privilege of working with some of these guys - ARM, Symbian etc, truly brilliant minds - yet very humble.

http://topuniversities.com/universit...s/2009/results