Nokia Leads Smarphone Market with 56% Share; Symbian Has 73% of OS Share
Nokia
leads the smartphone market a 56.4% share of the 70.9 million units
shipped in 2006, according
to ABI Research. Nokia sold 40 million smartphones in 2006, compared to
28.5 million in 2005. Motorola occupied the second position with 8.5%
market share, driven mostly by MING.
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China
Mobile, the world's largest wireless phone carrier by users, with more
customers than the total U.S. population, added a record 4.86 million
subscribers in January, taking its total to 306.1 million users. China
Mobile stock surged 83% last year.
Worldwide
consumer spending on mobile data services - including cellular data
transport, messaging and content - will jump from $125 billion in
2007 to just over $200 billion by 2011, according to a
new Strategy Analytics report, "Global Cellular Data Forecast
2007-2011."
Mobile
data access, particularly wireless e-mail, drove the worldwide PDA market
to record shipments of 17.7 million units in 2006, an 18.4%increase from
2005, according to Gartner.
Helio,
a virtual cell company and a joint venture
between EarthLink and Korea's SK Telecom, reports that its youth-oriented cell phone
service will reach 100,000 subscribers in early Q2 and that it is now
generating monthly revenue at a rate exceeding $100 million per year,
with ARPU of over $100 per month, substantially above the industry
average..
With
an estimated 207 million mobile phone subscribers in the U.S., text message continues to be the most widely used mobile application and
is potentially the most powerful tool in mobile marketing. Mark Beccue
sizes up the market for mobile marketing in terms of the actual number of
consumers you can reach with various mobile data applications.
Led
by mobile web, the mobile content and services market will continue to
grow dramatically as services and applications reach maturity and new
services begin to gain traction, 
UK
mobile phone giant Vodafone Group reported that it had crossed the 200
million subscriber mark in January. The firm added a net 8.7 million new
customers in its fiscal third quarter to December 31, taking its total to
198.6 million at the end of 2006.
The number of cellular connections
worldwide will
reach three billion by the end of 2007, having passed through 2.5 billion during September
2006, adding half billion connection in about 12 months, according to research firm Wireless
Intelligence, 
