Over the Smartphone market black clouds draw up. The sale of mobile phones is to decrease/go back in this year for the first time, but these expensive Highend devices were considered so far as hopes, which are not affected by it. Now growth decreases/goes back strongly also with Smartphones.
The Wirtschaftsflaute reaches now also the market for Highend mobile phones, from which the industry had actually expected its rescue. The market researchers of Gartner say that the paragraph of Smartphones in the fourth quarter added 2008 only by 3,7 per cent in relation to the previous year and 38.1 million devices reached. In the first quarter of the same yearly there was still 29 per cent. That were good times, before the crisis the business vermasselte.
Could the market further up-mix: Toshiba TG01 with 1 gigahertz main processor
Source: Pocket Lint | more pictures | Data sheet
Source: Pocket Lint | more pictures | Data sheet
If growth continues to go back, the question arises, when the market watchers must announce first decreases to the sales. After Gartners computations were sold 2008 to altogether 139.3 million Smartphones. That is a plus of 13,9 per cent and sounds good, but in former times rises were not around 100 per cent rarity. Before four years Gartner had still predicted that 2008 more than 200 million Smartphones were sold. This number missed the market clearly.
The straight market leader had to leave feathers/springs in the past quarter strongly. The paragraph of Nokia Smartphones fell by 16,8 per cent, while the competition added strongly. The market share of the Finnish manufacturer sagged on 40,8 per cent, in the same quarter of the previous year it still with 50,9 per cent had lain. 2008 sold Nokia to 61 million Smartphones and reached thereby only the number of the previous year. The sales of HTC rose against it by 20 per cent. The manufacturers RIM, Apple and Samsung could book even increases around 85 to 138 per cent.
Find Other Article :
No comments:
Post a Comment