subject: The Google Android Cell Phones Is Hot In The United States [print this page] The BlackBerry operating system of RIM still holds 35% market share. Nelson said that the market share of BlackBerry was 45% a year ago, but today, there was only 33% left. The Windows Phone of Microsoft is also a loser, a year ago, the market share of Windows Phone operating system was 20%, but in the second quarter of this year, there was only 11% left. Entner said, "Android cell phone is massively swallowing the market share of Blackberry and Windows cell phones."
In response to an unfavorable situation, Microsoft is ready to launch its own new Windows Phone 7 operating system. The Kaufman Brothers analyst of investment bank Shaw Wu said in a Investors Report that RIM would release the latest version of the cell phone operating system-BlackBerry 6 on Tuesday.
Entner said that the reason why the popularity of iPhone was weaken in the second quarter of this year was that users had canceled their former plans of buying the iPhone product and waited for buying iPhone 4. In the third quarter of this year, the sales volume of iPhone is expected to regain substantially growth. According to the data of Nielsen, a year ago, the market share of Apple was 21% in the United States, in the second quarter of last year, it had increased to 28%; the market share of Android has increased from 2% to 13%.
In addition, another marketing research firm Canalys released a report on Monday. It showed that in the second quarter of this year, the worldwide shipments of international cell phones increased by 886% compared with last year at this time. In the second quarter of this year, the overall shipments of cell phones( China cell phone ) increased by 41% compared with last year at this time, the shipments of Android smartphone increased by 851%, the market share of it was 34%. In addition, Android smartphone had a rapid growth in the Asia-Pacific market, especially in China which is the world's second largest smartphone market. In the second quarter of this year, the sales volume of Android cell phones was 475,000 in China, while it was zero almost a year ago.
As for the entire smart phone market, Nokia continues to be the leader; the global market share of Nokia is 38%. In the second quarter of this year, the shipments of Nokia smart phones was 23.8 million, it increased by 41% compared with last year at this time. RIM ranked as second, the market share of it was 18%, the shipments of BlackBerry increased by 41% compared with last year at this time. The global market share of Apple iPhone was 13%, the sales volume of iPhone increased by 61%.
