80% of Mobile Visits To Cabana Mobile From iOS

Gartner Mobile OS Market Share Forecast Through 2014

Click here to read Gartner's release associated with this table.

Mobile Content Developers' Platform Proclivities

See entire SAI article.

Nokia Rev & Net Chart | Key Challenges

€mils

Here are some key challenges that came out of Nokia's Q1 2010 earnings report today:

• Although Apple only sells 40% as many smartphones as Nokia, their sales grew much faster in Q1 (131%) compared with Nokia's (50%)
• CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo: "We continue to face tough competition with respect to the high end of our mobile device portfolio, as well as challenging market conditions on the infrastructure side."
• According to mocoNews Nokia's content service revenues declined 12% compared with Q1 2009
• NAVTEQ sales were up 41% compared with Q1 2009, but down 16% compared with Q4 2009
• US market share has dropped to a paltry 2.7%
• The first Symbian^3 device has been delayed until Q3 2010
• Nokia expects revenues in Q2 2010 to be between €6.7bil & €7.2bil, which is either a 28% or 22% decline from Q2 2009
• Nokia (NOK) stock was down more than 15% in early trading today

The US Is Getting Smartphonier, But Which OS Is The Smartphoniest?

FierceDeveloper ran a piece yesterday profiling the various mobile operating systems, including subscribers, recent growth rates, launch dates, supporting handset manufacturers, etc. Most of the information came from recent comScore survey data that revealed 30mil Americans have smartphones while 204mil still have dumbphones (and the rest have Fisher-Price phones). Here's the numbers by OS & growth rates from Feb to May 2009...

1. BlackBerry = 12,202,058 +26.2%
2. Windows Mobile = 7,040,584 +3.4%
3. iPhone = 5,744,018 +9.2%
4. Palm = 2,406,244 +0.3%
5. Symbian = 889,232 +0.1%
6. Android = 797,633 +86%

The growth information is obviously distorted somewhat by product release cycles...so, as you can imagine, iPhone will show crazy growth in the next cycle from 3Gs as will Palm from the Pre/WebOS. In the following cycle I'd expect to see Android growth spike again if the HTC Magic/myTouch performs to its potential. Frankly, I was pretty impressed by just how dominant BlackBerry is in the US and with how big Windows Mobile still is...like, I don't know anyone with a Windows Mobile device (except my mother-in-law...seriously).

Walt & Nokia's "OP" Kallasvuo Chat About Symbian, N97 & US Carrier Relations At D7

1. Symbian is a great OS and I hope more hardware manufacturers adopt it for more devices...but it has no hotness factor. Android has the OS hotness factor right now.
2. N97 rocks (I want one)...but it will get no market traction in the US if it costs $700.
3. There's a lot of blah, blah, blah here about building carrier relations in the US...but, what's actually happening? My feeling is that Nokia needs to re-build the aspirational nature of its brand with US consumers by supplying operators with cool, high-end devices (e.g. N-series, 5800 Xpress Music, E-series). I think many Americans associate Nokia with some of the low-end crap on T-Mo (1680, 2760) and/or their first "Nokia brick" handset.