| iPhone sales outstrip Windows Mobile handsets |
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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Friday, 05 December 2008 | |
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Page 2 of 2 Gartner predicts open source initiatives including Android and Symbian will further challenge Windows Mobile, which also suffers in the consumer market from "the lack of a competitive user interface".Featured Whitepaper
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North America saw 68 percent growth, with RIM and Apple taking 70 percent of the market between them. Latin America also showed strong growth at 56 percent. Gartner partly ascribes this to the introduction of the iPhone 3G. The company also noted that sales of all handsets (ie, smartphones plus 'regular' mobile phones) declined in the region. In Europe, the Middle East and Africa, growth was a more modest 14 percent and the top two vendors were Nokia and Apple. (It would be interesting to see separate figures for these areas - while similar time zones makes it convenient to lump them together for administrative purposes, they are hardly directly comparable markets.) The gloss went off the smartphone market in the eastern hemisphere. Gartner recorded an 11 percent decline in Asia/Pacific, and a huge 23 percent in Japan. |
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