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recent report from Gartner shows that Nokia still dominates the smartphone
market in the Middle East and Africa while globally at the end of last year
recorded losses of 1.4 billion dollars. Nokia's market share in the Middle East
and Africa reached 52.9% in 2011, down from 58.5% in 2010. Although Nokia
shares down but is still well above Samsung which is in second place with a
share of 15.8%.
Of
the data is well known that the BlackBerry even more shine in the region. The
share rose from just 4.5% in 2010 to 27.5% in 2011. While the IOS platform is
not so popular in the area because it is only able to record an increase of
3.6% in 2010 to 9.9% in 2011.
One
more thing that jumped the Android. From no share in the years 2010,
smartphone-based OS made by Google is able to achieve a share of 19.6% in
2011. This figure is predicted to rise due to the increasing number of options
available such as Android handset from Samsung, HTC, LG, Motorola and others.
Meanwhile,
Nokia also plans to introduce Windows Phone handsets in the region in 2012 was.
Nokia intends to introduce an affordable handset Windows Phone. The
introduction is fairly slow because Windows Phone at first did not have Arabic
support is needed for the Middle East market.
The
report also showed an increase in mobile phone sales are steady in the Middle
East. There are 155.87 million mobile phones sold in 2010 and 180 units sold in
2011. Smartphone sales rose from 16.41 million in 2010 to 30 million units in
2011. In the year 2012 is expected to sell 200 million handset units in this
area with 25% of which are dominated smartphone with Android development.
Source teknoup
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