We’ve seen these rumors before, but here’s another one. Which smartphone will overtake the world by 2015? According to this study, the winner is clearly Android, but then it also shows that Windows Phone 7 will surpass the iPhone, by one-tenth of a percent. This study was done by IHS iSuppli Mobile & Wireless Communications Service.
One of the hottest new products unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show was the Lumia 900, a Windows Phone-based smartphone sporting a flashy set of features that makes it competitive with the best alternatives offered by the Android camp,” said Wayne Lam, senior analyst for wireless communications at IHS. “This hot product represents Nokia’s first step to reclaim its market share. Combined with Nokia’s efforts to drive the development of the Windows Phone ecosystem, the Lumia 900 and its successors will help Microsoft to reclaim its No. 2 ranking in smartphone operating system market share in 2015.
Source: WPCentral
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They forgot Tizen :/, I have a feeling that Samsung may end up dropping Android eventually and use Tizen instead with their TouchWiz UI. Tizen will be able to run both Android and Bada apps too.
Boy they are sure banking on W7 making a huge surge in the next couple years. Should be interesting.
It sounds like their biggest reason for thinking they’ll have a surge is because of the deal with Nokia, and even though Symbian wasn’t popular in the US, it was one of the most used OSes overseas and Nokia was one of the most popular smartphone manufacturers overseas.
I’ll admit that I’ve loved Nokia’s hardware, just hated Symbian.