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One eighth of EMEA phones shipped are smart
Tim Green Aug 18 2008, 11:13am
13 per cent of all handsets shipped in EMEA in Q2 were smartphones, says Catalys.
Its new report Canalys also said total shipments of 12.6 million made it the second biggest quarter ever in volume terms for ‘converged’ devices. It estimates that 58 per cent of devices had integrated Wi-Fi, 13 per cent had stylus or finger-driven touch screens and 38 per cent had integrated GPS.
Nokia remained the market leader by some margin, but the other vendors in the top five posted much higher than average year-on-year growth, with second-placed RIM closing the market share gap by several points, and HTC, Motorola and Samsung more than doubling their shipments.
Both HTC and RIM have been making steady progress toward the one million shipments per quarter mark in EMEA and are now very close to each other in market share terms, but it is possible that they will be overtaken by Apple in Q3 following the launch of the iPhone 3G in many countries in the region.
Q2 market shares
shipments %
Nokia 8.95m 71.2
RIM 900,000 7.2
HTC 881,000 7
Moto 433,000 3.4
Samsung 401,000 3.2
