Touchscreen smartphones sales rose twice, Apple still in the lead

10 February, 2010
The high-tech industry analyzers from Canalys have published a very interesting report about the touchscreen and smartphone markets in 2009. Apparently last year was the first time...

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  • Anonymous
  • U2c
  • 10 Feb 2010

am sure, by the end of 2010, nokia will lead on sales... and why are we even comparing the results of 2008?? nokia dint even decide to look into smart phones market by then!!

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    • Anonymous
    • w7n
    • 10 Feb 2010

    Tudor, 10 Feb 2010cause they are cheaper, sometimes pretty reliable and now c... moreAgree with every points you said

    nokia will do very well in this new year
    n97 is underpowered to make it affordable to everyone in the world

    i dont think nokia can make another symbian flagship with the weak proceesor and little ram again

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      • Tudor
      • nyg
      • 10 Feb 2010

      ivcho, 10 Feb 2010I can't understand why people buy Nokia's crappy touchscree... morecause they are cheaper, sometimes pretty reliable and now come with free navigation. i guess nokia will take the lead by a good margin next year in the touchscreen market category.

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        • bosun99uk
        • fuN
        • 10 Feb 2010

        Nokia's marketing strategy and after sales services keeps and will continue to make them the market leader.

        Nokia phones are available worldwide.

        Ye, Apple had the highest touchy but that wont be for long becos of Android and the new HTC winmos. Android is like a bridge btw Apple and Symbian. You get the sleek touch UI and yet customization and freedom. But beware of Symbian ^3. Least i forget it makes no sense to use iphone outside the US(Unless u plan to jailbreak.)

        The future is Symbian leading and Android follows.

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          • juan
          • Ydg
          • 10 Feb 2010

          I have used iphone and htc magic. I find my magic better. But if you're going to compare iphone to nexus one of htc, I feel so sorry for apple.

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            • Shinigami
            • 3Vn
            • 10 Feb 2010

            Shinigami, 10 Feb 2010Apple rules among smart phoes sales. Fine by me, I buy smar... moreOh, I get it, touchscreen smartphoes are so much different than other smartphoes and other touchphoes and other phoes that they need a new market share calculation.
            Sorry for double post, can't edit comments.

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              • symbiandreamsdotcom
              • uST
              • 10 Feb 2010

              Marc, 10 Feb 2010No surprise here. Apple RULES!!!look at the difference...XD

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                • ivcho
                • pct
                • 10 Feb 2010

                I can't understand why people buy Nokia's crappy touchscreen phones. There are WAY BETTER mobiles !!

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                  • Shinigami
                  • 3Vn
                  • 10 Feb 2010

                  Marc, 10 Feb 2010No surprise here. Apple RULES!!!Apple rules among smart phoes sales. Fine by me, I buy smart phones with T9 dictionary, which fixes mistakes as I type :)

                  Anyways.
                  I can see 78 million Sybian phones sold.
                  I can see Nokia making 22 of them.
                  Who made the other 56 million?
                  SE with its Idou and Samsung with i8910 simply couldn't sell 56 million phones - internet would be full of news how successful these phones are.

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                    • Marc
                    • StN
                    • 10 Feb 2010

                    No surprise here. Apple RULES!!!

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                      • Anonymous
                      • t7v
                      • 10 Feb 2010

                      Happy lunar to everyone here, the same day as valentine day

                      2010, nokia can go to the top in the touchscreen smartphone market, maemo6 and symbian 3, and multitouch on capacitive or resistive, and much cheaper than new iphone. Who want the new iphpone 2010

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                        • symbiandreamsdotcom
                        • uST
                        • 10 Feb 2010

                        Anonymous, 10 Feb 2010Apple still kingnow what? Apple wins for its popularity not its functionality like Nokia and Microsoft do. =D

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                          • Anonymous
                          • 2Tw
                          • 10 Feb 2010

                          nokia barely started touch screen phones and look u apple fans (4070%)increase OH MY GOD!!!!!what a blow...such impressive results

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                            • symbiandreamsdotcom
                            • uST
                            • 10 Feb 2010

                            GSM arena should have its own 2009 Mobile Awards...ENGADGET is very bias on the fruit company....XD

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                              • Anonymous
                              • Uij
                              • 10 Feb 2010

                              HTC so far behind?

                              WinMo so low? Android even worse

                              wow the markets really bad, its gonna be interesting seeing the 2010 figures with Nexus One, HTC SuperSonic/Brovo/Legend and the likes

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                                • andy burgin
                                • 3pH
                                • 10 Feb 2010

                                Apple might still have high hopes on the iPhone,but most of the features on the iPhone you do not use,them others are catching up an soon will release a better mobile than the iPhone,Nokia an Samsung doing well but Lg an Sony still way behind, its early 2010 so we might still see loads of new software better than the iPhone one

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                                  • yaseen
                                  • fwH
                                  • 10 Feb 2010

                                  ive seen and played around with all these touch screen phones, Apple, htc's, samsung, N97's, 5800's, Satio's, NOKIA is by far the best and most user friendly, sure the others might be abit faster but who cares, the functionality of nokia's and everything else is by far the best and most convinient. Apple sucks

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                                    • Anonymous
                                    • n7f
                                    • 10 Feb 2010

                                    Aple impose sells on contracts to costumers in America, but not much in Europe, because here in Europe we have much better choice on better phones.

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                                      • Anonymous
                                      • mq4
                                      • 10 Feb 2010

                                      Apple still king