US vs. World Smartphone Market

June 12th, 2008

Someone sent this pie graph to me earlier today, and I thought it was pretty interesting. In fact, our whole team is still talking about it. Before I get into anymore details, let me show you the chart first.

Are you surprised that RIM has such a huge smartphone market in the US? I am not. It did surprise me that Apple actually lost market shares between Q4 2007 and Q1 2008 though, but that’s not my point. What did surprise me is the following chart:

Nokia owns 52.9% of the World Smartphone Market? That’s huge! I guess US only covers a small portion of the world mobile industry.  In fact, 44.5% of the US market is only equivalent to 11.4% of the world market!

I believe that Bharti Airtel and China Mobile alone already have more than the total number of US mobile subscribers combined, so the numbers do make sense.  Just not what I had imagined, since Nokia smartphones aren’t as popular here in the US.  I guess world domination is more important!

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