Interesting news arrived in my bloated inbox this morning, apparently Nokia have reported having a 40% wordwide market share in the last quarter of 2007.
Nokia is obviously the leading phone maker in the world with those stats, with an increase from 36% from the forth quarter of 2006 to a 40% share in the fourth quarter of 2007.
The growth has been attributed to sales in the Middle East and Africa, and modest growth in Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America, the phone maker said.
Things aren’t so rosy over in the states however, Nokia’s market share dropped to 5.1%, which is 0.8% less than the share they reported the same time in 2006.
A Nokia spokesperson said “Nokia’s mobile phone net sales grew 5% to 7.4 billion euros (about $10.9 billion), compared with 7.1 billion euros (about $10.5 billion) in the fourth quarter of 2006. Nokia also said it dropped its average selling price from 89 euros (about $131) in the fourth quarter of 2006 to 83 euros (about $123) in the fourth quarter of last year, and sold more entry-level phones. ”
Motorola still hold the crown over in the states as the biggest manufacturer, and according to our stats below, Sony Ericsson as a term is searched more often than Nokia by people buying phones online.
January 25th, 2008 at 10:40 am
This is a great achievement of Nokia.
January 25th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
it may seems true with nokia
March 6th, 2008 at 11:01 am
40% is a great achievement-but hides what is happening in regional markets.China and India are probably taking higher volumes of low end whilst EMEA is a mature and slowing market, and US is currently a disaster for Nokia