Motorola Tops WM Standard Sales

[Chuong Nguyen]

While HTC still dominates the WM Professional, otherwise known as the PDA-phone or Pocket PC phone, sales, Motorola has a slight margin in sales of Windows Mobile Standard phones, followed by Samsung and then HTC. According to the Digitimes (http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20080129PD208.html), all three firms have between 20-30% market share globally each.

I didn't really think that Motorola had such a strong lead with the Motorola Q series as the original Q was only available on CDMA networks and Samsung's first BlackJack was released globally.

Also, as of late, there have been rumors that Motorola would exit the mobile phone business and instead focus on government and enterprise needs. Hopefully, if Motorola does in fact exit the mobile phone business, they will retain the Q series as that fits the enterprise and government mobility model, but also is a chic consumer smartphone.

[Pony99CA]

While HTC still dominates the WM Professional, otherwise known as the PDA-phone or Pocket PC phone, sales, Motorola has a slight margin in sales of Windows Mobile Standard phones, followed by Samsung and then HTC. According to the Digitimes (http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20080129PD208.html), all three firms have between 20-30% market share globally each.
To be honest, I'm not sure what splitting the Pocket PC Phone market vs. the Smartphone market accomplishes. They're both "smart phones" in the generic sense, so why not count them together?

I didn't really think that Motorola had such a strong lead with the Motorola Q series as the original Q was only available on CDMA networks and Samsung's first BlackJack was released globally.
I'm not that surprised. The Q had a lot of buzz before it was released, and had the market (if only in the U.S.) to itself for a while.

Also, the BlackJack's market share may have been split by HTC and the T-Mobile Dash.

Finally, maybe Windows Mobile isn't that popular in the rest of the world compared to Symbian. I've been "discussing" that with a Windows Mobile (and American) hater on another blog (http://buzzzword.blogspot.com/2008/01/who-choses-windows-mobile.html).

Steve

[Jaime Rivera]

Finally, maybe Windows Mobile isn't that popular in the rest of the world compared to Symbian. I've been "discussing" that with a Windows Mobile (and American) hater on another blog (http://buzzzword.blogspot.com/2008/01/who-choses-windows-mobile.html).

Steve

Hehe... Funny but the blogger won't approve the comment I made yesterday. I wonder why :rolleyes:.

Symbian and Windows Mobile are two different ball games. An more accurate comparison would be to compare Blackberry to WM or the iPhone's MAC OS X to Symbian. Yes, true, Windows Mobile does practically everything Symbian can do, but currently not with flying colors because it's not what it was made to be best on and hardware is still not helping out as it should. I guess that if Microsoft would try for just once to build hardware that can take their software to the limit, many things would change :rolleyes: .

[Pony99CA]

Hehe... Funny but the blogger won't approve the comment I made yesterday. I wonder why :rolleyes:.
Yeah, he seems to have stopped approving my comments, too. I posted another comment in that thread and comments in two other threads that haven't shown up.

Maybe we should invite him here to discuss things and promise that we won't censor his comments....

Steve