Windows Phone: Samsung surpassed HTC, Nokia No.1 - WinFuture

While Nokia still number 1 remains among the providers of smartphones with Windows Phone, Samsung has now become the second largest manufacturer of such devices and thus the Taiwanese supplier HTC displaced to third place.

According to market research firm IDC, Samsung has only in the second quarter of 2013 to sell a million smartphones with Windows Phone. The market share of Koreans with the manufacturers of devices with Microsoft’s mobile operating system thus increased to at least 11.5 percent.

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Compared to the same period last year, this represents a significant growth represents, for at that time was Samsung with 300,000 units sold just 6.1 percent market share. HTC recently slipped with only 400,000 Windows Phones sold to third place now and thus has substantial difficulties in this area to achieve new growth. The market share of Windows Phone by Taiwanese was only 4.6 percent.

In the past the number of units sold of HTC Windows phones was still at the same level, due to the lower overall numbers was the market share with 8.2 percent, much higher. Nokia remains the market leader course with 7.1 million units sold and a share of 81.6 percent of the total supply numbers.

Samsung considerable increase in sales and market share for Windows Phone is partly due to the introduction of new, due to slightly improved smartphone models that are sold in the U.S. recently. In this country, most likely triggered the low price of the Samsung S ATIV have been a sale s engine, because the available equipment with a good device is currently being sold at dumping prices from only € 200.

The Chinese manufacturer Huawei was sold worldwide with 200,000 Windows Phones in the fourth place among the suppliers of Windows phones and so achieved a market share of 2.3 percent. Overall, sales of smartphones with Windows Phone risen over the same period last year significantly in 2013 but only 8.7 million units were sold in the second quarter -., An increase of 77.6 percent

This was Microsoft’s mobile operating system, according to IDC, a market share of 3.7 percent, while Apple could dominate with 13.2 and Google’s Android with 79.3 percent of the smartphone market further. Especially when there was a further sharp increase in Android sales, namely an increase in the total number of units by 73.5 percent to EUR 187.4 million units. Apple was only 20 percent down, and came to 31.2 million units sold – raising the market share because of the greatly increased total numbers fell Shipping

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