SPV CATCHING UP

[Guest JOB]

Well not really :wink:

http://www.canalys.com/pr/r2003071.htm

[Guest James]

OHLY S**T!

Nokia is almost %50 of the market!

[Guest Rob.P]

You can see others slowly building momentum though, I wonder what it will look like next year, thats a long time for these sort of manufacturers.

[Guest morpheus2702]

Look at Nokia's stranglehold on the voice-centric market - 78%. Could do with Big Ron's take on monopolies and oligopolies here :wink:

Significant though is the 27% 'others' share of the data-centric market. Would like to know what the composition of that is. How many SPVs shifted? 80000? That would suggest the SPV has 13.5% share of the data-centric market, which is not bad!

[Guest TANKERx]

What can you expect with Nokia - it knows the market and feeds it. It just gives users plenty of choice and doesn't lock anybody in to anything thus it has a good reputation among the masses as a maker of good quality, easy to use phones.

I've lost count of how many people who move from Nokia tell me they'll go back to Nokia when their contract will end. Probably because going from a Nokia phone to some of the others available is like going from a WindowsXP UI to Linux Command Line (and the masses don't care about the power behind an OS, they just want a phone that works, and works easily).

Nokia uses open standards and doesn't look to control them and force people to pay for them (I remember Juha Christensen saying that Nokia owned the MMS specification and was trying to force money out of other manufacturers who wanted to implement MMS - Sheesh!)

I don't think Nokia has a stranglehold on the market at all. Is it using dodgy methods to put the Motorolas and the HTCs out of business? It has its slice because it works at it with true innovation (ie, doing things that nobody has done before - unlike Microsoft innovation which is pretty much best described as 'following').

No company is honest, but Nokia seems to do a relatively good job of keeping users happy.

[Guest morpheus2702]

Wooh I'm sure that is going to draw some cutting posts from the more militant amongst us!

Granted Nokia does have probably the best user interface of any mobile. I just think the line about 'true innovation' is a bit shakey? I mean just how many phones can you spin off the same platform all targetted at more or less the same market segment? 7210, 6610, 6600? Personally, I find that confusing.

I used to be a dyed-in-the-wool Nokia user - 5146/3210/7110/6210 - but got tired of waiting for the 6310 so went over to Sony Ericsson - way ahead with GPRS, Bluetooth and subsequently colour.

Having a SPV the only thing I miss now is the Nokia's ease of texting.

[Guest Hax]

Significant though is the 27% 'others' share of the data-centric market.  Would like to know what the composition of that is.  How many SPVs shifted? 80000?  That would suggest the SPV has 13.5% share of the data-centric market, which is not bad!

Data-centric = handhelds and wireless handhelds

Voice-centric = feature phones and smart phones

So, it looks like the SPV isn't included in the "others" part of the data-centric stats, but Orange is listed in the voice-centric stats as having 5% - that'll be the SPV.

What I find more interesting is that Motorola have no mention of their own - I'm sure that they'll be included in the "others" section and although I've never thought much of their handsets, they have always seemed to have a fairly high presence in the mobile phone market - especially for cheap entry level phones....

I remember the "Hello moto" ads, but seem to have missed the "Goodbye moto" ones :)

Hax

[Guest squall]

anyone have any idea how many e100's have been ordered by o?

[Guest amo]

Its good that a single handest (SPV - Classed as the Orange heading) makes up 3% of the market share wheras Nokia rely on many handsets for their 50%