Apple and Samsung to Overtake Nokia as World’s Largest Smartphone Maker

[Maura]

AppleInsider reports today on the news that Apple and Samsung are about to overtake Nokia to become the second largest smartphone maker in the world, just behind Samsung which will now be number one. Nokia has been top of the global smartphone market tree since 1996, but this quarter, according to a new note from Japanese analysts Nomura, it will be overtaken for the first time in 15 years by two other companies, Samsung and Apple, falling back to third place. And that’s not all the bad news for Nokia, as Nomura also says that Korea’s HTC is also set to continue to surge forward, almost equalling Nokia’s sales by 2012 and eventually pushing the Finnish company into fourth place.

The one piece of somewhat positive news for Nokia is that it is still riding high as the world’s top cell phone maker, above nearest rival Samsung, and with no Apple products competing in this area of course. AppleInsider also notes that this January Apple became the biggest global phone seller in terms of revenue, hitting $10.47 billion, beating Nokia’s figure of $9.7 billion.

Source: AppleInsider | Apple set to overtake Nokia as Samsung becomes world's largest smartphone maker

 

[Gregoris]

Nokia used to have the best phones ever but now they just have the worse, they cant make good smart phones imo

 

[crowd pleaser]

Nokia used to have the best phones ever but now they just have the worse, they cant make good smart phones imo

Agreed,
Made their name from producing bullet-proof and loved by contractors because of it.

Lost their way seriously IMHO, I had an N95 8th 'flagship' handset with GPS receiver, yet i could not run their free map program on it .

CP