I've become interested in the mobile hardware and services markets since writing on smartphones last month -- in which I touched upon the eminence of the iPhone and difficulties of setup in general.
Maija Palmer, covering mobile for FT, had an informative print piece November 28th -- "Motorola loses ground in global handset league" -- in which apparently fresh market share numbers are quoted from Gartner's 3Q07 analysis. Among the interesting factoids: Motorola down to #3, its fall continuing to 13.1%; Samsung, doing nothing much, moves up to #2 at 14.5%. Smartphones: Nokia has 57% of the smartphone segment, RIM (Blackberry) has only 10%; Apple projects selling 10 million in 2008
Notably, Motorola's share of handsets has fallen like a stale hit record and it is therefore not surprising that Motorla CEO, Ed Zander, just announced his retirement plans.
Gartner's own Carolina Milanesi seems the ultimate authority on share. Here is her older 2Q07 table (based upon units sold) ...
| Handsets | 2Q07 | 2Q06 |
|---|---|---|
| Nokia | 36.9% | 33.7% |
| Motorola | 14.6% | 21.9% |
| Samsung | 13.4% | 11.2% |
| Sony Ericsson | 9.0% | 6.6% |
| LG | 6.8% | 6.3% |
| Others | 19.3% | 20.1% |
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