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Helsinki (pte033/31.01.2005/14:15) - Mobile phone giant Nokia http://www.nokia.com has more than doubled its shipments of so-called smart phones to 12 million in 2004 from 2003, according to a spokesman for the company. As the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) http://www.wsj.com reports, the Finnish company has invested heavily in developing smart phones, which are able to run sophisticated software and double as hand-held computers, in an attempt to boost its revenue and distinguish itself from rivals. However, smart phones tend to be expensive and account for less than 3 per cent of the global mobile phone market, according to new figures from research specialists Canalys http://www.canalys.com .
According to Canalys, the mobile phone industry shipped 17.5 million smart phones in 2004, which is more than double the 8.2 million that were shipped in 2003. According to figures published last week by Strategy Analytics, the total mobile phone market grew by 32 per cent to 684 million units in 2004. Canalys estimated that Nokia shipped 11.5 million smart phones in 2004, giving it a market share of 66 per cent. This is due to Nokia putting much more emphasis on the smart-phone market than rivals, such as Motorola and Samsung. "They have been constantly launching new devices," said Chris Jones, an analyst at Canalys.
However, according to Jones, California-based palmOne is still the leader in the North American smart-phone market. On a global scale, Fujitsu was in second place with a market share of seven per cent, with Sony Ericsson in third place with six per cent. Nokia, Fujitsu and Sony Ericsson all use software from Symbian, a London-based consortium partly owned by Nokia, to control their smart phones. As a result, Symbian had an 82 per cent market share of the global smart-phone market in 2004.
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