2010 mobile phone market overview: the best and the rest

28 January, 2011
After all major manufacturers posted their 2010 financial reports, it's time we draw the line and see what has changed over the past year. Apple was the biggest winner, surpassing several companies and...

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  • 29 Jan 2011

Anonymous, 29 Jan 2011nokia rocks....!!!!!:pread other articles!! nokia only managed to sell 28.3 millions of cell when apple, moto, samsung and rim sell mostly smartphone. Average selling price of nokia is so low.
http://www.gsmarena.com/this_holiday_season_was_not_that_happy_for_nokia_nor_was_the_year-news-2261.php

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    • 0Ay
    • 29 Jan 2011

    Nokia is going to dump both Symbian and MeeGo for Windows on Intel platform to reinvent what is called mobile computing.
    The Symbian MeeGo strategy turned wrong from the beginning.

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      • LpI
      • 29 Jan 2011

      Anonymous, 29 Jan 2011Your logic doesn't make sense. If Apple had only one phone,... moreI'm sorry, I mean: "If Apple had more the only one phone".

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        • Anonymous
        • LpI
        • 29 Jan 2011

        Anonymous, 29 Jan 2011Apple has 1 phone, that is makeing a ton of money. Every... moreYour logic doesn't make sense. If Apple had only one phone, every phone would share the same market as iPhone, as Nokia C6-01 and C7 shares the Nokia N8 market.

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          • HBm
          • 29 Jan 2011

          Anonymous, 29 Jan 2011Apple has 1 phone, that is makeing a ton of money. Every... more"If Apple had that many phones, they would be killing everyone"
          Or themselfs...

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            • Anonymous
            • j8L
            • 29 Jan 2011

            Apple has 1 phone, that is makeing a ton of money.
            Every year they make more money
            Nokia is losing and they have more than 30 phones avaialble.
            If Apple had that many phones, they would be killing everyone

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              • sE8
              • 29 Jan 2011

              nokia rocks....!!!!!:p

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                • Anonymous
                • LpI
                • 29 Jan 2011

                [deleted post]Who cares if the reasearch if official from Nokia or not? The fact still there. You know what's more pathetic? You trolls don't even have arguments to defend your "ideas", all you guys say is "Nokia SUCKS", "Symbian is ugly", "Nokia is dead", you know what that means? You guys hate Nokia so much only because it's still on the top even without good presence on North America, you trolls just can't aceppt that fact. So let's make it clear: Nokia doesn't fucking care only with North American stupid expectations, Nokia is the biggest brand because they do phones for all the global market, not for a specific market alone. They still doing phones with resistive screens because it's very convenient for alot of countries, they do reliable phones because it's conveniente for all market, they do phone with good cameras because it's convenient for alot of people. Nokia users don't fucking care for GHZ of CPU, hundreds of effects and eye-candy shitty, they care about functionality and reliability. They care about support and market experience.
                That makes Nokia far better than any other company.
                You think I'm wrong? OK then. So what do you expect from a smartphone?
                Beutiful OS with inconsistent phones with hundreds of different resolutions, technologies, OS version and hardware, with lead thousands of incompatibles Apps for your phone? Not to mention that it's a Java emulated system that need a 1Ghz CPU to run without any lagging. (Android)
                Or a beutiful and fast OS with stupid limitation like no true mult-tasking, no true video-call, no file manager, no true homescreen or widgets, no mass storage, not bluetooth file transfer and God know what else?(iPhone)
                What's so bad about Nokia phones them? The UI looks? Me and all "Nokia fanboys" rather quality than a useless good-looking OS.

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                  • t7x
                  • 29 Jan 2011

                  Nokia & MeeGo Rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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                    • j4P
                    • 29 Jan 2011

                    the FACTS prove it all this Year Apple is the best... so dont hate me hate the facts and the article... ;)

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                      • jAG
                      • 29 Jan 2011

                      Anonymous, 29 Jan 2011iPhone = QUALITY? LOL It's the most easy device to break i... moreObviously you are confusing quality with something else. Glass is easily broken from any fall. In most research studies, iphone quality is very high. HTC HD2 has easily broken glass as well, that doesn't mean the build quality of the device isn't good.

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                        • m5N
                        • 29 Jan 2011

                        Let's be honest, iPhone better winner even against LG Optimus 2X and Samsung Galaxy S.
                        Please have a look that video, i so surprised!

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                          • LpI
                          • 29 Jan 2011

                          LOL master, 29 Jan 2011LOL LOL LOL ... IPHONE is made in China BUT is DOUBLE ... moreiPhone = QUALITY? LOL
                          It's the most easy device to break into pieces. N8 got far better build and hardware quality and it's far more reliable. iPhone is expensive because it's the Apple way. Everything from Apple is expensive, not that they are that good, they only want you to think that their products are expensive because they are the best.

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                            • 29 Jan 2011

                            Mac, 28 Jan 2011I dont think sammy can! Like all those before, they bound t... moreI beg to differ... lets compare Samsung against others who tried to race to the front. LG? Moto? SE? all of these company combine are still smaller than Samsung. Samsung has a total Asset of more than $100 billion. Cash position of more than $20 Billion. Their interest span from chips to tv to engineering to heavy industries. They are so powerful in terms of financially and strategic positioning, it will never be an issue for them to expand to the globe. The past history has shown that when moto reaches a certain high, its volume was compensated by its profit. It is not the case for Smasung, In fact Samsung manage to report higher profit at its mobile division than Nokia. In terms of Sales, Samsung is nearly on par with Nokia.

                            Now you should realise how much junk phone nokia sold. Furthermore, looking at the trend last 5 years, Nokia has been constantly losing Market Share whereas Samsung Has been closing the gap. At 11 pct point, this is the closest Samsung manage to close up. If the momentum continues, We are not wrong to see a new no 1 in a year or 2. Bear in mind, Samsung produce many things in house, so they are able to plan their production well unlike others which might face parts shortages.

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                              • s0E
                              • 29 Jan 2011

                              LOL LOL LOL ...

                              IPHONE is made in China BUT is DOUBLE higher on price than N8 made in Finland . ?why : QUALITY is answer .

                              even cause Nokia phones are made in Finland they still SUCKS . Mostly people who said bad words for Chinese Products is cause they are poor and they always buy cheap chinese products third class , but let me to remember you Chinese first class is ORIGINAL , but you my friend dont have money to buy it .

                              if i come to your house and if i see your TV , computer etc etc 99% are MADE IN CHINA so STOP talking bad for chinese products , me and you and everybody buy chinese products , but depend which class .

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                                • 29 Jan 2011



                                android rocks \nn/

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                                  • jAG
                                  • 29 Jan 2011

                                  CB, 29 Jan 2011in all fairness to Apple, they only sold and shipped just 2... moreThat's only possible if Nokia wasn't too embarrassed about their sales numbers of N8 to actually release it. Samsung, Apple and Motorola all have no trouble releasing their figures for their devices between a quarter, but why is Nokia the only one so hush about it? They bragged about how the N8 had the strongest pre-order figures in their company history, yet why is there no sales figure to go coincide with it? gsmarena is too busy making love to their Nokia devices to ever make any article where it has to compare it directly to a competitor. Even if they did compare sales figure of N8 vs the Galaxy S and Iphone 4 you can bet gsmarena would have a line in the article like, "Nokia did manage to sell 25 million smart phones though!".

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                                    • 29 Jan 2011

                                    in all fairness to Apple, they only sold and shipped just 2 version of their units at any given time. And in this case just the 3GS and the 4.

                                    Whereas with Samsung and Nokia, they have releasez and shipped more than dozens of units this year.

                                    I am interested to see how much Iphone was sold vs N8 vs Galaxy vs Optimus.

                                    That would be the better comparison.

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                                      • Anonymous
                                      • PS6
                                      • 28 Jan 2011

                                      Anonymous, 28 Jan 2011Apple rules. They make more money with just 1 phone a year :)hope you have the share. :))