subject: Nokia And The First Position In Vietnamese Market Due To Cheap Price [print this page] According to IDC's latest report, thanks to the advantage of cheap 2 SIM models, Nokia remains the mobile phone manufacturers in Vietnam in the first quarter leading II/2012.
According to the latest report by research firm IDC, the Vietnamese mobile market II/2012 quarter achieved double-digit growth - 10.9% compared with the same period in 2011. However, the market saw a decline of 18% compared to the quarter I/2012, the main reason for the slowdown purchasing power due to inflation and recession, hindering people's income. Ordinary phone sales is significantly reduced (20.3%) while the number of smartphones fell 4.1%, despite the trend of more and more people looking to buy a smartphone.
Vo Le Tam Thanh - Senior Market Specialist at IDC Vietnam, said: "The shift from ordinary phones to smartphones positive place in Vietnam." Due to difficult to gain market share in the segment ordinary telephone saturated that Nokia dominated, the local Chinese business and are turning to cheap smartphone segment where consumers can quickly take advantage of the discount smartphones.
Mr. Thanh also expressed optimism despite the economic problems created barriers in consumer spending, the smartphone market will bounce back strongly in the future when the firms introduce more smartphone price Does the 3G network and the reduced rates.
According to IDC, the two leading phone companies quarter II/2012 as Nokia and Samsung. Nokia end of the quarter in a market leading position with phone sales accounted for more than half of Vietnam. Nokia's results due to the success of the cheap 2 SIM phone while the new series of Lumia smartphones also received positive feedback. Meanwhile, Samsung's popular models continue to prove superior to a smartphone for Vietnamese consumers remain price sensitive and careful with the difficult economic conditions. The main results in this segment allows Samsung to become a major force in the mobile market of Vietnam.
If compared to iOS, Android user must have reason lemon pleased to. Three months after launch, only 2% of Android users to experience the latest 4.1 Jelly Bean version, while less than two weeks after the release of the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch running iOS 6 has up to 60% .
At the present time, the most popular Android version is 2.3 Gingerbread. Be compared to a Windows XP in the mobile sector, the platform is still in batch release list of manufacturers, although it almost abandoned by Google (do not get any upgrades from May 9/2011).
