Mobile Phone Best Seller
Motorola Q – the best selling smartphone in USA
January 01, 2007 [General]
Generally Windows Mobile has a leading position in USA – approximately equal to Palm OS as far as sales are concerned.
In USA Symbian powered phones are number 3 and have rather small market share, what is contrary to global market share, where Symbian has over 80%. Weak position of Symbian in USA is related to the fact that Nokia lacks CDMA know-how and phones – needed for Verizon Wireless and Sprint wireless carriers. Apart from that the GSM wireless carriers from USA – Cingular and T-Mobile – often force Nokia to release phones to USA market in a crippled form – for example without Wi-Fi.
Situation is in flux and subject to changes because several new Symbian phones with HSDPA are about to hit markets in first quarter of 2007 (mainly from Nokia, Samsung and LG), but for now it looks like Motorola Q – powered by Windows Mobile smartphone edition (MS Smartphone) is a market leader in USA:
Here’s the breakdown of the top sellers from August through October:
- Motorola Q
- Palm Treo 650
- Verizon Wireless XV6700
- Palm Treo 700p
- BlackBerry 8700
The current top five best-selling smartphones reflect a shifting market that’s no longer limited to Treos and BlackBerries. Motorola’s Q has come on strong, and actually led sales between August and October 2006.
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Interestingly still some analysts are confused and count BlackBerry devices as smartphones, although they can’t execute native 3rd party applications with full access to operating system (like true smartphones can) but can run only limited Java applications (midlets).
