Vojtech, Mr Czech Republic, now based in London, is on the hunt for some Symbian statistics, ideally by geography.
I’ve always been a fan of the Symbian operating system, despite whacking it with a large stick at every opportune point (tough love, I’d like them to succeed) — and it’s for this reason that I’m posting this note.
Do you have — or can you recommend a source of geographic Symbian use statistics for Vojtech? It’s — in the end — going to help out Symbian so I’d appreciate your suggestions.
My fag packet calculations that might be entirely wrong:
Europe: Tons
Africa: Lots
Asia: Not so much
Americas: Rubbish
How’d I do?
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Looks like you have the figures spot on… I have seen some figures somewhere recently, surprised Symbian don't have them to hand! Will post what I have
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I can think of many who’d like to see these numbers, too – Help: Symbian statistics by geography? | Mobile Industry Review http://ow.ly/itEp
The Symbian OS marketshare can easily be accessed from this link…is this what you are looking for?
http://stats.getjar.com/statistics/world/platfo…
Not bad but so wrong in Asia! – Nokia share data prep'd by Canalsys with their Nokia Forum PRO developers.
SmartPhones aprox 10 % (10.2 m) of shipments in Asia up from 8.5% previous quarter. Nokia has 32% share in Q4 08.
There are many market numbers to get market sizing from on GetJar, Bango and AdMob.
LatAm is also big Nokia S60 territory.
I can think of many who’d like to see these numbers, too – Help: Symbian statistics by geography? | Mobile Industry Review http://ow.ly/itEp
You have to remember that much of the FOMA phones in Japan are based on the Symbian OS, and with NTT Docomo having the majority share of the market (at ~54m subscribers), that is a large number of Symbian phones indeed!
Also, from observation, Asia looks pretty similar to Europe in phone preferences being a prevalently GSM market (ignoring countries with their own domestic producers and standards); especially Nokia is still quite popular, along with the Samsungs, LGs and the SEs.
Thank you all! This is very helpful.
Thank you all! This is very helpful.