So right after I finished my Q1 total smartphone market review, Google came out with the statement that they now sell 100,000 smartphones per day. There are 61 models of Android handsets by 21 branded manufacturers (including Google itself with its Nexus One as one Android handset model).
RUN RATES
What does this tell us? Well, the quick math of course says Google is now (in May) selling smartphones at the rate of 36 million units per year. Is that big? World number 4 manufacturer of smartphones, HTC (who makes mostly Android smartphones but also makes Windows Mobile smartphones) sells currently at the rate of 18 million per year. So where HTC once was manufacturing seven out of every ten Android handsets in the world, today HTC's share is at best half of all Android phones - this bodes well for the other big Android manufacturers like Motorola, LG, SonyEricsson, Samsung etc. HTC is no longer the only game in town.
But yes, what does 100,000 per day mean? How does that compare to Apple's iPhone? Yes, the world got quite a shock two weeks ago when NPD reported that Android devices were selling more than iPhones in the USA in Q1. So yes, how is Apple doing? Well, its latest sales numbers from Q1 had Apple selling iPhones at 8.75 million per quarter which means they sell at the rate of 35 million units per year. Yes, assuming Apple's current iPhone sales have not exploded in unit sales (reasonable assumption as we await the new iPhone model due in June, and something Apple said in court documents about the Gizmodo 'stolen' iPhone case, Apple actually testified that current iPhone model sales are struggling because customers now await the new model), the family of Google Android smartphones has definitely passed iPhone unit sales globally in Q2.
So how near is RIM, the world's second largest smartphone maker? Its getting interesting here - RIM's latest quarterly sales were measured at 10.6 million by the analysts (we await newer numbers from RIM which reports in a cycle one month off from the normal quarterly calendar cycle) but yes, RIM's current sales is at the level of 42 million per year. Or the daily rate? RIM's daily rate in Q1 was 116,000 smartphones per day. How close is Android? Android reported in Q1, that it was selling 65,000 handsets per day, or about 24 million per year. In just one quarter, Android family has grown unit sales 54% (compare with RIM who grew 4% or Apple who grew 1% from the previous quarter). This is amazing growth rate. Its very likely that Android smartphones will pass RIM in quarterly sales during Q3, even if RIM picks up speed and Android slows down considerably. The difference in growth rates is that immense right now.
Oh, and its totally certain, Apple cannot recapture third place from Android during Q3. Apple needs to abandon its one new smartphone model per year strategy. Android has already 61 phone models in the market - out of 21 manufacturers it means that on average each rival maker offers 3 Android models. So think just playing the averages, go to an average country, to an average carrier and find that LG offers 3 Android models, Motorola offers 3 Android models, Samsung offers 3 Android models, SonyEricsson offers 3 Android models, ZTE offers 3 Android models - these are all dumbphone handset manufacturers who produce more dumbphones than Apple total sales. Then in the best case, that carrier is an authorized iPhone dealer who offers one iPhoen model that is less than a year old (the 3GS) plus another iPhone (3G) which is almost two years old by now. And in the worst case that carrier does not support Apple, but does offer these 15 Android smartphone models many of which look to the average un-infromed customer remarkably similar to an iPhone (and usually even cost less).
Now each of those global brands with global distributorships offering phones through far more carriers than Apple - now each has on average 3 Android models already released (and more coming). So they can afford to do 'one iPhone Clone' with near identical form factor to iPhone, then do another QWERTY smartphone (the QWERTY keyboards still outsell touch screens remember, so this is a huge market that Apple is abandoning to its rivals) and then do a third more special phone - if you're SonyEricsson, that could be the super cameraphone under the Cybershot brand or if you're ZTE that could be the 100 dollar super-cheap smartphone for Africa and India etc. Apple doesn't have a prayer to catch up - remember last quarter Apple grew 1%, while Android grew 54% and grew past Apple now, so they were roughly similar size (its easier for a small player to grow faster than a larger player, thats just the math of percentages)
So in this quarter, Q2, Android is running neck-to-neck with Apple and passing it, by Q3, Android is challenging RIM and may well pass it (meaning it will be very close for the full year sales, who ends up selling more for full year 2010, who is the second best-selling smartphone platform in the world).
What of number one? In Q1, Nokia was selling at the rate of 86 million smartphones per year (over twice the size of Android today). If measured on a daily sales rate, Nokia sells 236,000 smartphones every day. Nokia grew 3% from the previous quarter. So Nokia is not 'threatened' by the Android invasion yet, not at all. But even the boys in Espoo do take notice when a rival grows over 50% in just one quarter. It can become an unstoppable force if that continues.
THE UPSIDE ROSY SCENARIO FOR ANDROID
Lets assume for the sake of argument, that Android manages its enormous growth rate for several consecutive quarters without slowing down (an unlikely scenario as currently its major handset makers have been doing their ramp-up, so the growth rate in total Android sales is likely to slow down). Note I am simplifying the pattern, ignoring the Chrismas sales peak, but just doing some linear projection. So lets see how the numbers stack up, if Android grows every quarter by 54%. And lets assume that Noka would also manage to continue to grow at its current rate of 3% per quarter. If that happened, Android would pass Nokia as early as Q1 of 2011.
Please note, I am not making that forecast now. I don't think its plausible for Android to keep growing at such speeds for the next three quarters to come. But it is so close to RIM already today, that almost certainly before the end of the year, and quite possibly already in Q3, Android will become the second-bestselling smartphone OS in the world, behind only Symbian, and ahead of RIM and Apple. And by the end of the year, Symbian will start to feel the heat. Not from Apple, not from RIM, but yes, from Google Android.
I think a far more reasonable scenario has Android taking a solid second place by end of the year or early next year, and then doing a more gradual race against Symbian and Nokia in the next few years, the two giants of smartphone platforms.
THE REALITY BIT
Three important caveats to bear in mind. First, many major dumbphone handset makers who support Android, also support Windows Mobile (ie also its newest incarnation, Microsoft Phone 7, due out end of this year). So especially Samsung, SonyEricsson, HTC and Motorola are certainly going to consider how good the new Phone 7 OS will be and may well use the Phone 7 platform to release some phones at least to differentiate from the 21 manufacturers who now offer very often 'clone-like' copies of each others' phones on Android. So there may be some 'leakage' of market share away from Android to Phone 7 towards the end of the year and early in 2011 when perhaps some makers shift their flagship models to the Microsoft OS. For this to happen it is absolutely crucial for Microsoft to deliver a well debugged, highly competitive OS upgrade on time. Microsoff's surprise announcement of its first two Kin phones gives evidence that Microsoft is serious in the smartphones wars. So don't count them out.
Secondly remember Samsung, the biggest of the dumbphone makers who support Android. Samsung sells 21% of all phones on the planet, and it sells for example more touch screen phones than all Apple iPhones. Samsung supports four smartphone OS platforms (Symbian, Android, Microsoft and its own new OS, Bada). Samsung said that for 2010 they intend to sell 24 million smartphones, and half of those will be on Android, and a third on Bada. As Bada is Samsung's own OS, they will no doubt increasingly prefer their own OS, so towards the end of the year, Samsung's 'mix' of OS platforms supported may well be tilted so, that in Q4, over half of all smartphones are Bada and only a third on Android. So some of the early hot growth in Android smartphone sales we see now in Q1 and Q2 of 2010, is that heavy push by Samsung to shift to Android, which will then move to Bada towards the end of the year. That will very likely cause Android sales growth to slow down as Bada ramps up. Note again, that as Samsung dumbphone maker rivals LG, SonyEricsson, Motorola and ZTE all support Android, there is no danger that if Samsung shifts its balance from Android to Bada, but as no others support Bada, therefore there is no danger that Android sales would stall with this change. But it does mean Android is having its golden time now, and that will probably change towards the end of the year.
And third, remember Symbian is more than Nokia. Symbian is the bestselling phone operating system in Japan, where the world's most advanced phones are made. The typical Japanese 'featurephone' runs on Symbian but is not considered a 'real' smartphone because it does not allow end-users to install apps (the phone OS is closed to the user). Yet this means significant Symbian sales out of Japan come what may. And NTT DoCoMo the biggest operator in Japan just announced a partnership with half a dozen Japanese mobile industry giants to create an app store, and a smartphone OS evolution path, to Symbian (and to Linux Mobile the other major smartphone OS platform used in Japan). So yes, there is the occasional Samsung Symbian phone and the Japanese and every so often even a SonyEricsson etc. So Symbian is not just Nokia, Symbian's market share is about 45% of the new phone sales globally, and the installed base of all smartphones in the world is nearly 60% Symbian. Now that Symbian is an open source foundation, it is also finding new support, even as the OS obviously shows its age in many ways.
And while they are a microscopic player today - Palm after being bought out by HP the world's biggest PC maker - HP is a huge giant corporation - its twice the size of Microsoft or Nokia, four times as big as Apple or Motorola, so if HP wanted to make a serious effort as a late-comer to smartphones, it could turn Palm around and become a significant player. Not in a year but in a few years, could be rivalling the Apples nd RIMs of the world with their own small OS families. And then, if HP wanted to really try a major play, they might go open source and try to build a family of manufacturers around Palm's OS. I am not suggesting this is happening, I am just imagining. Alone HP can't hope to even match Apple in the next 3 years, what Apple achieved in the previous 3 years, so even by the end of 2013, HP alone with Palm cannot hold as much as 3% of the global handset market. So if HP wanted it as a niche mobile strategy for its own branded PCs in the shfit to the pocket that is fine. That would be in line with Apple's OS/X strategy, building iPads and other Apple exclusive devices on that platform, even as its share of phones is tiny. But if HP wanted Palm to become a rival to say Microsoft (and Google) then it also would need to build partnerships quickly with other handset makers. Lets monitor this space, it could be interesting.
BUT CONSIDER THE 'ARMIES' INVOLVED WHO ARE ALLIED IN THE BATTLE
What do I think? I think the trend for Android is strong. It can well be holding something like 25% to 30% by the end of the year (ie Q4 market share) and for the full year sales will edge past RIM in something like 22%-24% levels of the total new smartphone sales market share for the full year 2010. Nokia will still be the clear leader, but no longer will Nokia be as big as number 2 and number 3 combined (as it still is today).
I also want to mention about the manufacturers supporting Android. Every major company in mobile seems to be suddenly a smartphone maker. As I've written, the competition by giant global brands in smartphones has tripled in three years, back in 2006 before the iPhone only 7 of the Global Fortune 500 largest corporations on the planet were involved in marketing smartphones under their own brands. Today that number is 23 and growing. Also a few years ago most dumbphone makers were ambivalent about smartphones, whether that would remain a niche luxury bracket item, or become a global major market opportunity. Today all major dumbphone makers have announced strong commitment to smartphones. And obviously the biggest PC makers, software makers, internet companies etc believe in smartphones being relevant to their business future.
PROVOCATIVE SCENARIO
So, lets take a quick 'provocative' look at the market shares of the Global 10 biggest handset makers, and see how many of them support Android. I am simplifying, and assuming Samsung will eventually shift from Android to only supporting Bada.
Nokia 35% - Symbian (and in future MeeGo)
Samsung 21% - Bada
LG 9% - Android
ZTE 5% - Android
RIM 4% - Blackberry
SonyEricsson 4% - Android
Apple 3% - iPhone OS/X
Motorola 3% - Android
Sharp 2% - n/a (supports Symbian and Windows Mobile and Linux Mobile)
Huawei 2% - Android
If we assumed all who make smartphones for multiple OS's would only pick their primary one, and if we assumed all dumbphone makers could transfer their existing dumbphone market share to smartphones (a very unlikely scenario as seen by the troubles of Motorola and SonyEricsson to achieve this) then Android supported major brands of dumbphones would give Android just out of these companies - and even allowing Samsung to 'escape' completely - of 23%
So in that hypothetical model the market shares among the Top 10 would be in a couple of years something like
Symbian (Nokia) 35%
Android (LG, ZTE, SonyEricsson, Motorola, Huawei) 23%
Bada (Samsung) 21%
Blackberry (RIM) 4%
iPhone OS/X (Apple) 3%
all other smartphone makers which would include 15 more brands for Android, plus HP/Palm, Microsoft, plus some Japanese etc on Symbian, Linux Mobile etc would share the remaining 14%
Note, I do not see this split of market shares as plausible, in particular, I do not see Bada being able to capture nearly all of Samsung's current market share. But consider, just by 'market power' of the support of its 'committed' partners in Android (even allowing Samsung to be promiscuous, to be opportunitistic with Android now while it builds the rival Bada platform) - the other 5 major dumbphone makers in the Top 10 of the world, who supprot Android, their dumbphone market share is 23%. Compared to RIM at 4% or Apple at 3%. I think its safe to say that Android will soon be one of the biggest smartphone platforms on the planet, come what may. And by the end of this year, they are likely the second largest behind only Symbian.
So yes, the announcement of 100,000 Android handset sales per day is a very important milestone for Google's smartphone platform.
I'm an Electrical Engineer and I had a real hard time keeping track of what you were talking about. All the figures and data you've splattered in this post overwhelm each other. Have you thought of maybe making graphs, tables, or pie charts to better illustrate your point? It would really help (some) readers to have visual references to refer to.
Posted by: ronin | May 26, 2010 at 06:23 AM
Hi ronin
Thank you. I hear you. Your concern is valid and I am sure there are many of our regular readers who would love that - in fact even I would love that, if somehow there could be graphs for the numerical arguments I make often on this blog.
But the point is, that I am not a professional blogger, this is not a news aite. This is a hobby blog site. I really only volunteer to bring stories here from time to time. And observe, we take no advertising here, so this is purely out of the goodness of my heart to share what I think my regular readers would be interested in.
And I have a full time job (I am a consultant to the industry and travel extensively). So I do the best I can - I am more a numbers and words oriented person. The main point is to get the idea out there, rather than for me to make it 'perfect' at this stage. I know the blogosphere is an excellent vehicle for taking rough ideas then collaborating to make them better.
I am most willing to let anyone take facts from my blog and turn them to graphs and illustrations - as many of my readers do from time to time - and I will then link to those as well. But I can't take the time to make this blogsite 'pretty' in illustrations, sorry. I appreciate the concern, I can only hope that others find the facts useful and turn them into pictures for those readers who are better at digesting facts in graphical form rather than text and numbers.
I do try to keep main themes separated by subtitles, and the individual points within the paragraphs, but yes, this was heavy in terms of numbers even by my standards haha. I am sorry about that. I really did not have the time to edit it for a day to make it better. I am sorry about that..
Thank you for visiting and commenting
Tomi Ahonen :-)
Posted by: Tomi T Ahonen | May 26, 2010 at 06:55 AM
This is the market share trap. it really doesn't matter except for pundits and speculative Wall St.
Until Android takes market share from Apple, it's kind of moot whether Android has x-percent or Nokia has it. Apple is wildly profitable with smaller market share. The same can't be true of everyone, particularly Google who has no direct revenue stream with Android.
Apple's model is based on the two-year service contract. Consumers hate it when their product is out of date shortly after buying. Their heads explode when it's out-right obsolete. Apple's development cycle and tight control over hardware, software, and developers offer a solid two-year road map where consumers can be current without breaking contracts or paying unsubsidized phones. I don't think this can be underestimated when the consumers figure it out Android isn't the iPhone.
Shortly device hardware should stabilize and it will all be about software anyway. Apple can pump out quality software as well or better as anyone.
Posted by: Mike F | May 26, 2010 at 01:39 PM
Tomi,
thanks for another great post! One thought: What do you think the chances are that Nokia would try to jump aboard and make a line of android devices? They could beat all the others at the game and be the biggest producer of android phones in the world - while still sell loads of symbian phones, and perhaps even continue experimenting with MeeGo. Or is that just my imagination running wild?
Posted by: Anders S. Løvlie | May 27, 2010 at 10:56 AM
Hello Mike,
LOL funny to hear its only meant for Pundits or Speculators. It can also appeal to geeks or to people who follow tech news extensively or even to normal/occassional readers like me. Infact, the unique nature & content of the blog makes it distinguishing & much interesting as compared to millions scattered all over the web.
Coming to point, I agree with you on Apple being vastly profitable on account of business model it pursue's. Yes, many Apple customers are sick of two year contracts, but the underlying fact is I-Phone doesn't end up entirely obselete whereas its counterparts from other manufacturers vanish in few seasons. Several smartphone models on Android, Symbian, WinMo from 2009 have disappeared & apparently I-Phone still remains to be much talked smartphone. I myself invested in a Symbian smartphone in second quarter of 2009 & due to indifference from manufacturer for its model, it became obselete in under 3-4 quarters.
- Tomi
I believe you can add HTC as a manufacturer in Android space as from 2010 onwards, they have apparently shifted their thrust to Android from WinMo. To count share of Android as 23% without including HTC doesn't sounds convincing to me.
Posted by: Manu | May 27, 2010 at 05:57 PM
Hello Tommi,
I have been following your blog for quite some time now, and it is really an eye opener, I have learned a lot.
Now, something you say intrigues me, about making a career in mobile because it is the future. I am Systems Engineer, specialized in IT. So where do someone that wants to start a career should start? Any book or training I should take?
Posted by: Mario | May 28, 2010 at 07:04 PM
Success is not about market share. It is about profits. You should look at share of profits to really understand who is winning. Nokia is toasted with $88 ASP
Posted by: Fabio Sisinni | May 29, 2010 at 01:51 AM
Hi Mike F, Anders, Manu, Mario and Fabio
Thank you for the comments
Mike F - first on 'market share trap' - that is not true. This blogsite is not a smartphone site or a phone site or a mobile site. We specialize in social networking (which happens to be going to mobile) and digital convergence (which happens to be going to mobile) and digital media (which also happens to be going to mobile). Currently the hottest story in digital convergence and media is smartphones. For our readers, who tend to work for companies involved in digital media, digital business, social netwoking, digital convergence (and mobile) - it is VERY important to know which platforms are in the pockets of their customers or constituents or clients or patients or students or however they describe their 'audiences' haha. It is totally relevant to know that what was once the second biggest smartphone manufacturer, Palm, has fallen out of the Top 5, or the second biggest smartphone OS with almost a third of the global market, Windows Mobile, is now in 5th place with single digit size reach. These are very important to our readers - and often involve facts very VERY hard to find in the public domain, or badly distorted like the often quoted Admob stats which give a remarkably distorted view of the mobile world.
On the profitablity - please Mike F, note this is not an investor advice blog. We really don't care who makes the most profit (yes we do, but we are more curious than really care) - as long as the platform overall is viable ie it does make some sustainable profits - hence say Motorola dumbphones or Palm smartphones were not viable because they were making perennial losses. I have been very clear time and again, that Apple is the most profitable smartphone maker, but that does not alter the fact that of the world's 4 billion mobile phones in use worldwide, the installed base of still used iPhones (excluding the early 2G iPhones that now are no longer used) is exactly 1%. For our readership that is the critical number. On some Wall Street blog, the profit margin of Apple vs rivals is the relevant number, not here.
You say 'Apple's model is based on a 2 year service contract'. I understand that you have that view, it tells me you probably are US based. That is not Apple's view. It is AT&T's view the US exclusive dealer of the iPhone. In Italy or Belgium or Australia or Indonesia you can get an iPhone with no contractual commitment and replace it every year. Note customers in more advanced markets than the USA, tend to replace phones far more rapidly - in Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong the replacement cycle is under a year, and for heavy users - those who would buy a smartphone - it is 6 months - they buy phones by the fashion cycles, which is why Japan and South Korea have new phone launches correlated with the fashion cycles of clothing brands. Yes, new phones are walked on the catwalks twice yearly, Autumn and Spring 'collections'
And if you think thats bizarre, we just heard last week that in the Arab Emirates the phone replacement cycles are as short as 2 months. So your iPhone is new in June and its 'out of fashion' already by August. Thats how fast its at the fastest replacement cycles. Apple prefers higher speeds than 2 years, it is AT&T (and many other exclusive iPhone carriers/operators) who wants a 2 year contract.
Anders S - no chance in h*ll haha. No chance whatsoever for Nokia to go Android. Not in this decade, no way no way no way. Nokia is by far the biggest handset maker - similar to how IBM was once in mainframe computers. Nokia learned lesson from Microsoft that the OS and software can be the big profits where moving boxes like IBM PC's were a poor business model - eventually IBM sold its PC unit to Lenovo (and has greatly increased IBM profits since then). Nokia knows these numbers and case histories. They believe strongly that they want to control the OS, and use their market size to that advantage. So as I have predicted that the bloodbath will get bloody ie damage profitability and push many rivals into making losses - witness how badly Lenovo was hurt already moving to smartphones - Nokia will be the last man standing among the big 5 legacy handset makers. They have far deeper pockets than Samsung and I could promise you that Samsung won't abandon Bada either, no matter how bloody the profit drain may become this year and leading into next year.
Because Nokia has invested in MeeGo, that is their open source Linux based future OS. No way would Nokia go Android. What Nokia COULD do, is join with Android, if Android was merged into MeeGo, (then it would never be called Android, but could be some kind of hybrid name of MeeAnd or something). Remember Nokia already tried this once with Symbian - inviting all of Nokia's rivals to build one shared smartphone platform for all - but the Americans didn't want to play ball, even as Motorola joined, Palm, RIM, Microsoft all refused to join (the Japanese even did, haha) and forced a smartphone OS war, which Symbian clearly won until Apple came along to launch a second world war in smartphones now, and now yes Android is the newest challenger haha...
So no chance whatsoever. Its either Symbian + MeeGo for Nokia for this decade, or perhaps MeeGo evolution into a merger with Android if Android/Google is willing to cede control ie some of that free ads based background of Android would need to go. I think Nokia would be more willing to partner - witness Intel with Meego - than Google abandoning its 'lock' on the fastest-growting smartphone OS today haha...
Manu - about HTC yes, the reason I excluded HTC is, that HTC is not a top 10 world's biggest phoen maker. They are too small, so yes, there are more - over 20 Android manufacturers already - but the rest are so small in global handsets, one percent or tiny fractions of that, that it didn't make sense to add. But yes, HTC has actually manufactured 70% of all Android phones made until the end of 2009, so I know, they are the early giant. But expect that to change soon..
Mario - join Forum Oxford, its free (also add comments there and add Forum Oxford on your CV). Then read my book Mobile as 7th of the Mass Media (dont' read others of my books). After you have read it, write to me in email, and tell me what you find interesting, and I'll suggest further reading for you, and obviously I won't suggest most of my own books haha, but after you've read that, you'll have a better view of the big picture, where the money and opportunities are, and what part you want to pursue. If you want a good technical book consider Paul Golding's or Chetan Sharma's latest books. If you can afford it, you might come and take my 2 day course at Oxford University in mid October. The course is not expensive and hotels in Oxford are not too expensive, but I guess you'd need to fly in, so that may be an issue. If you come, stay for the week ending 15 October and take the Forum Oxford Conference on that Friday as well.
Also please watch my video from the Picnic conference at this link
http://fora.tv/2009/09/24/Mobile_Phones_The_Next_4_Billion_with_Tomi_Ahonen
Beyond that, absorb and read the book and get back to me in email, lets see what next.. Good luck, welcome to our industry, this is the fastest-growing sector in the global economy, by far the best career opportunity of this decade, very likely of our lifetimes..
Fabio - Nokia is not competing against Apple or RIM. Nokia main business is handsets, and its rivals are Samsung, LG, SonyEricsson, ZTE and Motorola. Nokia (like all rivals) is slowly migrating its giant customer base to smartphones. So firat, you can't compare Nokia to Apple or RIM in profits. You have to compare Nokia to Samsung, LG, ZTE, SonyEricsson and Motorola - who are making razor-thin profits or losses, Nokia has BY FAR the best profit margin of its main rivals. And Nokia is the only one who has a better market share in smartphones than dumbphones - so Nokia is not just more profitable than its rivals, it has also managed to migrate more of its legacy customer base to smartphones. Its far easier for a pure smartphone maker like RIM to make big profits, they have no dumbphones - or for what was a horribly thin-profit margin PC business like 'Apple Computer' which of course will get far better profits as it migrates poorly profitable PC busienss into much more profitable phones (and obviously at the top end smartphones) business.
Thank you all for writing
Tomi Ahonen :-)
Posted by: Tomi T Ahonen | June 01, 2010 at 04:49 AM
Regarding what Tomi wrote about Nokia's efforts to prevent/circumvent an OS war but those manufacturers that refused to join the effort forced the war…I wonder what historical event or literary work most closely resembles those events. Maybe when Native Americans failed to unite against Europeans or the League of Nations which was formed after WWI. Any other analogies?
As long as different manufacturers had different needs, wasn’t the Symbian open source move doomed to never be able to prevent a war?
I thought Nokia’s Symbian move was just to prolong the economic life of its chips. I had no idea that it was ever conceived as a way to prevent an OS war.
In order for it to have had any hope of preventing an OS war, Symbian would still need to show that it could offer manufacturers their highest market share over other OSs. I never saw that effort. I only saw an effort that said here is another reason to use Nokia chips rather than upgrade.
Alright so it didn’t prevent a war, but did Nokia at least profit from the effort? Tomi?
Posted by: Matthew Artero | June 02, 2010 at 06:18 AM
Thank you. I hear you. Your concern is valid and I am sure there are many of our regular readers who would love that - in fact even I would love that, if somehow there could be graphs for the numerical arguments I make often on this blog.
Posted by: Polly | December 15, 2010 at 02:25 AM
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Posted by: white iphone 4 | December 18, 2010 at 08:25 AM
Without the flash the white iPhone 4 is almost as bad as the 3G, but with a higher resolution. The worst phone in this test was the iPhone 3Gs with very bad low light performance.
Posted by: Henry Peise | December 23, 2010 at 02:42 AM
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Posted by: iphone covers | January 14, 2011 at 02:53 AM
Hello Tommi,
I have been following your blog for quite some time now, and it is really an eye opener, I have learned a lot.
Now, something you say intrigues me, about making a career in mobile because it is the future. I am Systems Engineer, specialized in IT. So where do someone that wants to start a career should start? Any book or training I should take?
Posted by: orjin krem | February 10, 2011 at 01:38 PM
Hello Tommi,
I have been following your blog for quite some time now, and it is really an eye opener, I have learned a lot.
Now, something you say intrigues me, about making a career in mobile because it is the future. I am Systems Engineer, specialized in IT. So where do someone that wants to start a career should start? Any book or training I should take?
Posted by: tütünex | February 10, 2011 at 02:40 PM
So lets see how the numbers stack up, if Android grows every quarter by 54%. And lets assume that Noka would also manage to continue to grow at it
Posted by: hayvancılık | February 26, 2011 at 07:57 AM
and its totally certain, Apple cannot recapture third place from Android during Q3. Apple needs to abandon its one new smartphone model per year strategy. Android has already 61 phone models in manufacturers it means that on average each rival maker offers 3 Android models.
Posted by: devlet hastaneleri | March 16, 2011 at 09:57 AM
Without the flash the white iPhone 4 is almost as bad as the 3G, but with a higher resolution. The worst phone in this test was the iPhone 3Gs with very bad low light performance.
Posted by: tütüne son | March 20, 2011 at 04:09 AM
ord of English, and no one speaking a word of german was another paradigm shift. Its going through
Posted by: doğal taş | March 26, 2011 at 07:35 PM
an unlikely scenario as currently its major handset makers have been doing their ramp-up, so the growth rate in total Android sales is likely
Posted by: gelir vergisi | March 28, 2011 at 07:56 AM