Windows Phone Gains Market Share as Nokia, BlackBerry Fall

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I'm sure Microsoft is happy about the news.

And looking down the road... I'm sure the next-gen XBox will drive Windows phone (and probably Windows 8) sales even further. People seem to like to have all of their devices work together seamlessly.
 
[citation][nom]Ragnar-Kon[/nom]I'm sure Microsoft is happy about the news.And looking down the road... I'm sure the next-gen XBox will drive Windows phone (and probably Windows 8) sales even further. People seem to like to have all of their devices work together seamlessly.[/citation]
As one who has win8 and WP8 I would have to say that they don't exactly work 'seamlessly' quite yet... but they do complement eachother pretty well, and there is at least a road map of integration with winBlue which ought to bring tighter integration and make more of the features cross platform.

What's missing?
1) some form of Airplay so that people like myself who have to do presentations can do them directly from the phone or RT tablet to a PC connected to a projector.
2) The music app is terribly broken on both win8 and WP8... but in different ways. Hopefully the next version will make it useful.
3) While you can sync files via Skydrive, I would love to have some form of network access so that when I am at home or the office I can browse the local network for content without having to upload it to skydrive first.
4) Smartglass seems like a neat feature that would be really cool between the phone and win8... but it only works between the phone and xbox360, or the PC and xbox360. This needs to change.
5) One of the coolest things about having a smartphone is being able to check out a website on a whim when you hear about something. We need some way to sync our bookmarks and page history between the phone and desktop. Having some sort of 'push to desktop' feature would be cool too in IE.
6) A really awesome 3rd party app (PC Remote) allows me to use my phone as keys and mice for my HTPC, which is AWESOME! We are also getting ready to use it as a baby monitor so that we can check if the kiddo's are sleeping from our phones. Something like this (at least the keys/mice) needs to be integrated into the OS itself, and tie it to user accts so that it is more secure than PC remote is.
7) I log into my phone with my Microsoft acct, and I log into win8 with it as well... so why not have some bleed-over of settings and preferences?

Don't get me wrong, MS has gotten a ton of things right on WP8 and it's ability to work with MS services and win8... but there is just some room to grow. If given the choice again I would still pick my Lumia 920 over the SGS3, no regrets here!
 
just got my WP last week, and i really like it. i agree with the fellow above that there's a long ways to go in terms of cross-platform integration though; some things that seem so completely obvious still aren't there yet, like being able to mirror your PC's outlook settings and information on your phone. still, good news! it's a great OS and deserves recognition.
 
[citation][nom]Bloob[/nom]Interesting title, when Nokia makes 80% of the Windows Phones sold.[/citation]
I deliberately went out of my way to get the Samsung Ativ S, best phone I have ever used, basically SGS3 hardware but I prefer the WP8 OS
 


Samsung does not seem to place a high priority on WP though, if the rumours are true. I went for HTC, their 8-series is gorgeous.
 
Good for the mobile OS. Now they just need some additional hardware that consumers find compelling. Having really only two options (nokia's 920 and the HTC 8x) is a bit frustrating.
 


Those are expensive high-end phones though. WP has started to gain traction in South Africa, where I live, by going for the mid-range market. I use the 8S, which is a brilliant phone for the price. If you want to up your sales volume you have to have the whole spectrum covered, and I think Nokia's range is very well positioned for this. The other partners are lagging behind a bit, but then they haven't bet their entire future on the platform the way Nokia have. It's Windows or bust for Nokia at the moment.
 
[citation][nom]Herr_Koos[/nom]They probably meant Symbian, but yes, it is a bit confusing.[/citation]
It probably meant Symbian, especially since the article states it is referring to Symbian. Did either of you two even read the article before commenting?
 
[citation][nom]spentshells[/nom]This doesn't really show much of anything. 2.7 percent of the U.S. market ????? what market the sales market? The usage market? The repair market? This is "article" is missing details on a very grand scale.[/citation]
There's a link in this phrase:
"Kantar's numbers show that Windows Phone".... that takes you to the original article for all the details they have. Knock yourself out.
 
[citation][nom]house70[/nom]There's a link in this phrase:"Kantar's numbers show that Windows Phone".... that takes you to the original article for all the details they have. Knock yourself out.[/citation]


Thanks for the help but if I wanted to go to that website for my tech news....... I would have
 
This is so not the way to look at it - Nokia went all in on Windows, so say, for example Italy, what really happened is that only half of Nokia's customers stuck with them and went windows, while the other half defected to Android mostly. Pretty poor news for Nokia. At best ambivalent for MS since they do need to eventually build out of the "former symbian" market.
 
So Android gains from 45.4% to 51.2%, which is a gain of 5.8%, while Windows Phone goes from 2.7% to 4.1% which is a total gain of 1.4%...

So in other words, Android gains marketshare of almost 1.5x all of Windows Phone's installed base, but yet the news is that Windows Phone is doing so well?

BIASED MUCH?!

There is a clear leader in the mobile OS race, and it's Android!
 
You have to look at the growth speed. for Windows phone to grow from 2.7% to 4.1%, the units shipped have increased by at least 140%, which is faster than Android's about 50%.
 
[citation][nom]Caffeinecarl[/nom]So Android gains from 45.4% to 51.2%, which is a gain of 5.8%, while Windows Phone goes from 2.7% to 4.1% which is a total gain of 1.4%...So in other words, Android gains marketshare of almost 1.5x all of Windows Phone's installed base, but yet the news is that Windows Phone is doing so well?BIASED MUCH?!There is a clear leader in the mobile OS race, and it's Android![/citation]
Your math ability is pretty indicative of the American education system.
Android going from 45.4 to 51.2 is certainly a gain, but only one of around 8.7%, while its around 65% increase for WP. In the UK WP share more than doubled and in Italy its an almost 300% increase.
However, the percentages really shouldn't be looked at too hard as android tablets are counted as phones which skews things somewhat, and many people including myself have multiple devices from the different groupings represented by these new numbers.
Android is a useful OS, but its so damn ugly and fragmented it really shouldn't be counted as a single system any more. Also, its free to license, unlike all of the other OSes. It would be interesting to see how the pie would be divided if royalties had to be paid by handset manufacturers like with every other mobile OS.
 
One may count total units activated as a measure of market share, but does this account for units sitting in a box because the user got tired of it and switched? Counting total units does not mean each unit has a happy user. Also consider that Android and Win8 phones constitute a considerable number of very low-cost, low-profit-margin units, while iOS units are all high-profit-margin units. So Apple is making the lions share of the smartphone profits.
 
zybch, what your saying isn't wrong but neither is caffeinecarl. He never once said a percentage gain you added those words.
Also can you back up that tablets are counted as phones this is the first I have ever heard of this.
 
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