Nokia lose huge market share in finalnd

Everyone knows it is been a tough year for Nokia, as the world biggest handset maker tries to turn the ship around and get back some momentum through itsalliance with Microsoft and a range ofshiny new Lumia handsets.

Even the company most hardcore supporters that is, users in its home territory of Finland seem to be defecting to rivals, with new figures from IDC showing that it has lost more than half of its smartphone market share there over the last 12 months.

According to a Finnish language report from Helsinki Taloussanomat, Nokia share of the smartphone market for the third quarter of 2011 has dropped to 31 percent thats down from 76 percent the same time last year.