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ABI Research is out with a new report talking about smartphone shippments. From their press release, we learn that the market continued to build on the strong fourth quarter of 2009 in the first three months of 2010. ABI’s data suggests that a little more than 55 million smartphones were shipped during the period, which actually is a million less than the previous quarter. However, that’s still impressive considering the seasonal sales cycles.
The company’s senior analyst Michael Morgan said: “Normally we would see a much greater decline in shipments in the first quarter; the fact that the drop was so relatively small highlights the continuing dynamic growth of the smartphone market.”
Much of the growth came from the markets previously little penetrated by expensive smartphones.
Nokia was pointed as a great examples with their shipments rising QoQ from 20.8 million to 21.5 million, largely on the strength of the new models in the “C” and “X” series. Morgan noted that it was not the “iPhone-killers” that helped the Finnish company grab market share, but lower-end devices that deliver “satisfying social networking and other basic smartphone experiences.”
As for the iPhone shipments, they also rose slightly from 8.7 to 8.8 million, partly on the back of strong performance in markets such as Japan and China…
And you can get additional information from ABI Research’s website.
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Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
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