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It took a while, but we finally have the numbers for all 4 major analyst houses (Gartner, IDC, Canalys and Strategy Analytics). I did as I always do, I calculated the average of their totals, to find the quarterly total smartphone sales - which came to 101.2 million, and we saw a growth of 2% in smartphone sales in the first quarter of 2011 from the fourth quarter (Christmas-quarter) of 2010.
BY MANUFACTURER
This is how I report (or when numbers not officially given, am doing my official estimate) of the top 10 biggest smartphone brands by manufacturer in Q1 of 2011:
Rank . . Brand . . . . . . . Millions sold . . . . . . Market Share Q1 . . . . (market share Q4)
1 . . . . . Nokia . . . . . . . 24.2 million . . . . . . . 24% . . . . . . . . . . . . . (29%)
2 . . . . . Apple . . . . . . . 18.4 million . . . . . . . 18% . . . . . . . . . . . . . (16%)
3 . . . . . RIM . . . . . . . . 14.5 million . . . . . . . 14% . . . . . . . . . . . . . (14%)
4 . . . . . Samsung . . . . 12.6 million . . . . . . . 13% . . . . . . . . . . . . . (11%)
5 . . . . . HTC . . . . . . . . . 9.7 million . . . . . . . 10% . . . . . . . . . . . . . ( 9%)
6 . . . . . SonyEricsson . . 4.9 million . . . . . . . . 5% . . . . . . . . . . . . . ( 5%)
7 . . . . . LG . . . . . . . . . . 4.7 million . . . . . . . . 5% . . . . . . . . . . . . . ( 4%)
8 . . . . . Motorola . . . . . . 4.1 million . . . . . . . . 4% . . . . . . . . . . . . . ( 5%)
9 . . . . . ZTE . . . . . . . . . 2.2 million . . . . . . . . 2% . . . . . . . . . . . . . ( 2%)
10 . . . . Sharp . . . . . . . . 1.8 million . . . . . . . . 2% . . . . . . . . . . . . . ( 2%)
The big movers are Nokia in crash-dive, lost 5 market share points in just one quarter, and Samsung and Apple who both picked up two market share points in the quarter. HTC, LG and ZTE are also growing, Motorola is slipping back further into the pack. RIM, SonyEricsson and Sharp are roughly holding station.
BY OPERATING SYSTEM
I also did some forced math to try to squeeze as close as possible the operating system numbers that are reported, to the above total number and as usual, this is the more difficult bit, but this should be close. (Please remember, I only count smartphones, not tablet PCs or other devices that might run on say iOS or Android etc) The market shares by operating system as I see it for Q1 are:
Rank . . . Operating System . . Market Share Q1 . . . . . (was market share Q4)
1 . . . . . . Android . . . . . . . . . . 35%. . . . . . . . . . . . . . (30%)
2 . . . . . . Symbian . . . . . . . . . 25% . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (32%)
3 . . . . . . iOS . . . . . . . . . . . . 18% . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (16%)
4 . . . . . . Blackberry . . . . . . . 14% . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (14%)
5 . . . . . . bada . . . . . . . . . . . . 3% . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ( 3%)
6 . . . . . . Windows Mobile . . . . 2% . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ( 2%)
7 . . . . . . Phone 7 . . . . . . . . . . 2% . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ( 2%)
Others . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1% . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ( 1%)
First, remember that Symbian also still has Japanese makers who support it in addition to Nokia (that is why the percentage here bigger than in the above). Also very interesting race among the small operating systems is hidden in the percentages. Several sources say bada sold 3.5 million (thus almost 4% when rounding off), compared to about 2 milllion for old Windows Mobile and 1.6 million for new Phone 7. So even in Q1, Microsoft's newest operating system is being beaten even by its older sibling, and Samsung's new OS outsells all Microsoft Phone 7 partners combined, by more than 2 to 1.
A number we should look out for. Samsung has not given a split of bada vs Android vs Microsoft handsets, but if those analyst numbers and quoted numbers are roughly right, we should have been at about 8.8 million cumulative bada shipments by end of Q1, so sometime now during Q2, we should pass 10 million cumulative bada devices. Expect that kind of noise soon from your Samsung team..
And in the Nokia-watch.. How is my model compared to Nokia reality. When I did my 'Nokia premium smartphone customer give-away sweepstakes' blog, I projected the following (which we can now compare to actuals for Q1)
TOMI PROJECTION IN FEBRUARY FOR NOKIA MARKET SHARE CRASH IN 2011
Quarter . . . Market Share . . . Unit Sales . . . . ASP . . . . . Total Revenues of Smartphones
Q1 2011 . . 28% . . . . . . . . . . 29 M . . . . . . . . 146 Euro . . 4.3B Euro
Q2 2011 . . 21% . . . . . . . . . . 25 M . . . . . . . . 136 Euro . . 3.3B Euro
Q3 2011 . . 16% . . . . . . . . . . 21 M . . . . . . . . 126 Euro . . 2.6B Euro
Q4 2011. . 12% . . . . . . . . . . 17 M . . . . . . . . 116 Euro . . 2.0B Euro
I said clearly in my blog that it was my 'best case' scenario, as there was plenty of Nokia doom and gloom at the time, following the Stephen Elop stunning Microsoft announcement of February 11 (including my previous analysis of the decision and how it was made). But there were several competent analysts who came to the blog who said they felt I was being too harsh on Nokia, that while it would be bad, it wouldn't be quite that bad. Well, now we have the very first evaluation of those numbers. And yes, it is worse. I had expected Q1 best case to be and what it actually was:
COMPARISON NOKIA Q1 AHONEN PROJECTION VS REALITY
My projection Q1 . . 28% . . . . . . . . . . 29 M . . . . . . . . 146 Euro . . 4.3B Euro
Nokia actuals Q1 . . 24% . . . . . . . . . . 24 M . . . . . . . . 147 Euro . . 3.6B Euro
So Nokia is already 4 market share points below what I projected, 5 million unit sales below what I projected. It is almost spot-on on the average sales price drop as I predicted, thus total smartphone revenues are 700 million dollars below what I projected for the quarter. If you thought Nokia's year 2011 was going to be an annus horribilis based on Ahonen's doom-and-gloom blog, it is clearly going to be far worse...
Make your own guesses how much worse Q2 will be than my original projection in the above, haha..
ANDROID SPLIT
Also as many are intersted in how the Android world is doing, I am continuing with my best guess of how the Android manufacturer internal market shares are going. I find for Q1 that the Android family splits its 36 million handsets sold like this:
HTC . . . . . . . . . . 26%
Samsung . . . . . . 24%
SonyEricsson . . . 13%
LG . . . . . . . . . . . 13%
Motorola . . . . . . . 11%
Others . . . . . . . . 12%
I will come back later with some gossip and news about the various brands how they are doing now in Year 2 the Electric Boogaloo.. But I wanted to post these market share numbers as I know many of my readers have been waiting for them. Enjoy
BY MANUFACTURER
This is how I report (or when numbers not officially given, am doing my official estimate) of the top 10 biggest smartphone brands by manufacturer in Q1 of 2011:
Rank . . Brand . . . . . . . Millions sold . . . . . . Market Share Q1 . . . . (market share Q4)
1 . . . . . Nokia . . . . . . . 24.2 million . . . . . . . 24% . . . . . . . . . . . . . (29%)
2 . . . . . Apple . . . . . . . 18.4 million . . . . . . . 18% . . . . . . . . . . . . . (16%)
3 . . . . . RIM . . . . . . . . 14.5 million . . . . . . . 14% . . . . . . . . . . . . . (14%)
4 . . . . . Samsung . . . . 12.6 million . . . . . . . 13% . . . . . . . . . . . . . (11%)
5 . . . . . HTC . . . . . . . . . 9.7 million . . . . . . . 10% . . . . . . . . . . . . . ( 9%)
6 . . . . . SonyEricsson . . 4.9 million . . . . . . . . 5% . . . . . . . . . . . . . ( 5%)
7 . . . . . LG . . . . . . . . . . 4.7 million . . . . . . . . 5% . . . . . . . . . . . . . ( 4%)
8 . . . . . Motorola . . . . . . 4.1 million . . . . . . . . 4% . . . . . . . . . . . . . ( 5%)
9 . . . . . ZTE . . . . . . . . . 2.2 million . . . . . . . . 2% . . . . . . . . . . . . . ( 2%)
10 . . . . Sharp . . . . . . . . 1.8 million . . . . . . . . 2% . . . . . . . . . . . . . ( 2%)
The big movers are Nokia in crash-dive, lost 5 market share points in just one quarter, and Samsung and Apple who both picked up two market share points in the quarter. HTC, LG and ZTE are also growing, Motorola is slipping back further into the pack. RIM, SonyEricsson and Sharp are roughly holding station.
BY OPERATING SYSTEM
I also did some forced math to try to squeeze as close as possible the operating system numbers that are reported, to the above total number and as usual, this is the more difficult bit, but this should be close. (Please remember, I only count smartphones, not tablet PCs or other devices that might run on say iOS or Android etc) The market shares by operating system as I see it for Q1 are:
Rank . . . Operating System . . Market Share Q1 . . . . . (was market share Q4)
1 . . . . . . Android . . . . . . . . . . 35%. . . . . . . . . . . . . . (30%)
2 . . . . . . Symbian . . . . . . . . . 25% . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (32%)
3 . . . . . . iOS . . . . . . . . . . . . 18% . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (16%)
4 . . . . . . Blackberry . . . . . . . 14% . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (14%)
5 . . . . . . bada . . . . . . . . . . . . 3% . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ( 3%)
6 . . . . . . Windows Mobile . . . . 2% . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ( 2%)
7 . . . . . . Phone 7 . . . . . . . . . . 2% . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ( 2%)
Others . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1% . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ( 1%)
First, remember that Symbian also still has Japanese makers who support it in addition to Nokia (that is why the percentage here bigger than in the above). Also very interesting race among the small operating systems is hidden in the percentages. Several sources say bada sold 3.5 million (thus almost 4% when rounding off), compared to about 2 milllion for old Windows Mobile and 1.6 million for new Phone 7. So even in Q1, Microsoft's newest operating system is being beaten even by its older sibling, and Samsung's new OS outsells all Microsoft Phone 7 partners combined, by more than 2 to 1.
A number we should look out for. Samsung has not given a split of bada vs Android vs Microsoft handsets, but if those analyst numbers and quoted numbers are roughly right, we should have been at about 8.8 million cumulative bada shipments by end of Q1, so sometime now during Q2, we should pass 10 million cumulative bada devices. Expect that kind of noise soon from your Samsung team..
And in the Nokia-watch.. How is my model compared to Nokia reality. When I did my 'Nokia premium smartphone customer give-away sweepstakes' blog, I projected the following (which we can now compare to actuals for Q1)
TOMI PROJECTION IN FEBRUARY FOR NOKIA MARKET SHARE CRASH IN 2011
Quarter . . . Market Share . . . Unit Sales . . . . ASP . . . . . Total Revenues of Smartphones
Q1 2011 . . 28% . . . . . . . . . . 29 M . . . . . . . . 146 Euro . . 4.3B Euro
Q2 2011 . . 21% . . . . . . . . . . 25 M . . . . . . . . 136 Euro . . 3.3B Euro
Q3 2011 . . 16% . . . . . . . . . . 21 M . . . . . . . . 126 Euro . . 2.6B Euro
Q4 2011. . 12% . . . . . . . . . . 17 M . . . . . . . . 116 Euro . . 2.0B Euro
I said clearly in my blog that it was my 'best case' scenario, as there was plenty of Nokia doom and gloom at the time, following the Stephen Elop stunning Microsoft announcement of February 11 (including my previous analysis of the decision and how it was made). But there were several competent analysts who came to the blog who said they felt I was being too harsh on Nokia, that while it would be bad, it wouldn't be quite that bad. Well, now we have the very first evaluation of those numbers. And yes, it is worse. I had expected Q1 best case to be and what it actually was:
COMPARISON NOKIA Q1 AHONEN PROJECTION VS REALITY
My projection Q1 . . 28% . . . . . . . . . . 29 M . . . . . . . . 146 Euro . . 4.3B Euro
Nokia actuals Q1 . . 24% . . . . . . . . . . 24 M . . . . . . . . 147 Euro . . 3.6B Euro
So Nokia is already 4 market share points below what I projected, 5 million unit sales below what I projected. It is almost spot-on on the average sales price drop as I predicted, thus total smartphone revenues are 700 million dollars below what I projected for the quarter. If you thought Nokia's year 2011 was going to be an annus horribilis based on Ahonen's doom-and-gloom blog, it is clearly going to be far worse...
Make your own guesses how much worse Q2 will be than my original projection in the above, haha..
ANDROID SPLIT
Also as many are intersted in how the Android world is doing, I am continuing with my best guess of how the Android manufacturer internal market shares are going. I find for Q1 that the Android family splits its 36 million handsets sold like this:
HTC . . . . . . . . . . 26%
Samsung . . . . . . 24%
SonyEricsson . . . 13%
LG . . . . . . . . . . . 13%
Motorola . . . . . . . 11%
Others . . . . . . . . 12%
I will come back later with some gossip and news about the various brands how they are doing now in Year 2 the Electric Boogaloo.. But I wanted to post these market share numbers as I know many of my readers have been waiting for them. Enjoy
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