Predications Of The Smart Phone Market

Published:2011/3/31 22:36:00 Author:Li xiao na From:SeekIC

The newest predication of Ovum indicates that the present-day smart phone market’s scale will double after five years in Asia-Pacific region, and the shipment will be two hundred million sets. Globally, the shipment of smart phone will reach 653 million sets in 2016, and the Asia-Pacific market takes thirty percent. Analysts find out that Android will drive the growth of market, and it will become the platform of the dominant market. The sales of Android have exceeded Apple, and it has twenty percent more of the market share.

It is also predicated that the yearly growth rate of smart phone will be 12.5% between 2010 and 2016, and it will take thirty-two percent of the entire phone market in Asia-pacific region. The smart phone will increase rapidly in the future five years, which will make a big splash in the market again. We will find that the transformation of the smart phone’s software platform. In the year of 2016, Android will be in the leading position of the market, which takes 38.7% of the market share. In comparison, the Windows Phone will have 22.6% of the market share.

The success of Android is due to the suppliers who support both the high-end and low-end and high-end market. According the predication of Ovum, the iOS ranks next to Windows Phone, which has nineteen percent of the market share, and BlackBerry OS follows it. It is also predicated that another platform will be the mainstream. It may be in the existing practitioners, such as Bada, WebOS or MeeGo, and it also can be in some new emerging parishioners.

The cooperation between Nokia and Microsoft has disturbed the smart phone market, which will lead the low shipment of the smart phone with Symbian system, because Nokia transforms to Windows Phone, and it becomes the main smart phone platform. The Symbian system phone will still be produced by Nokia, so its shipment will continue. For Microsoft, this deal has brought it a firm partner which is able to make the Windows Phone become mainstream. But the other manufacturers will not choose to compete with Nokia or to concern the Windows Phone. The related integrated circuit is HMBT468.

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