Worldwide Smartphone Market Q2 2010

Android market share is 17%, while RIM has 18%, but it has been around for years and offers only smartphones. There are two companies of the kind - RIM and HTC. Other manufacturers offer ordinary phones as well. You can remember HTC Smart, but its influence is too insignificant and it is just an experiment.

Nokia's Symbian is still a leader with 43.5% of the market, but a year ago it had 50.3%. Nokia sales are based on inexpensive smartphones purchased as ordinary handsets. Accessible price is a key factor for Nokia survival now. Unfortunately, in terms of technology the company is losing ground.

Let's look at the figures and forecast the future.

Symbian's future looks uncertain, because the price decrease has its limits and the competition in the low price range will heat up in 2011 when MediaTek will offer an inexpensive chipset for smartphones, especially the models build on Android.