Three of the top five cellphone manufacturers have faced steep drops in their market share in spring while Apple and other newer participants are on the rise, according to a final estimate by IDC. Confirming some predictions by the companies themselves, the study infers that Nokia, Motorola and Sony Ericsson all lost double-digit percentages of their market share from a year ago. Motorola and Sony Ericsson lost the most, falling 47 percent and 43.4 percent in the number of phones shipped to come down to account for just 5.5 percent and 5.1 percent of the market each.
However, even world’s largest cell phone company Nokia's phone shipments have also dropped sharply and have fallen 15.4 percent from year to year. It still holds the top-spot with 38.3 percent of the whole market though. The two Korean firms LG and Samsung were the only two of the top five to make headway and saw tangible gains of their own, shipping 6 percent and 14.2 percent more phones respectively to reach third place (11.1 percent) and second pl
ace (19.4 percent) – reports electronista.
While Nokia has made a slight recovery in smartphones and is mostly affected by poorer sales of low- to mid-range phones, the Motorola and Sony Ericsson losses hold partly from their weaknesses in smartphones.
IDC puts the smaller competitors in the category “Others”, but Apple is believed to have snapped up a noticeable portion of the remaining market. Its 5.2 million iPhones shipped equate to about 1.9 percent of the total market of 269.2 million phones. Also RIM’s share for the BlackBerry is being quoted as 7.8 million units shipped, although the number would be difficult to gauge as the company's quarterly results schedule doesn't match most of the industry.
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