Android eating Nokia’s lunch, report says

September 30, 2009 | Paul Boutin | Comments | |

heroAndroid sales are growing at Nokia’s expense, according to the latest report from AdMob, one of the largest mobile ad networks.

“The HTC Magic (my Touch) is a Top 10 smartphone in both North America and Western Europe,” says AdMob’s latest edition of its Mobile Metrics Report, a monthly publication.

All other touchscreen smartphones seem to be growing, except for Nokia’s N97 and 5800 XpressMusic models. Would most Americans be able to identify an N97 or a 5800? Here’s a promo shot of the 5800.

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  • sjigjinni
    This makes sense. The Symbian community can easily migrate to the Andoid community since both groups like the open-ness of their respective systems. Assuming all other things constant, the comfort of Google's software makes the industrial design a very moot point. This is really about Google and Symbian rather than HTC and Nokia.
  • I’d suggest going back and looking at the source material for this….it’s a “bit” skewed.

    Why? All that AdMob is reporting on are the operating systems that they cover and if the majority of what they are covering is then presto, Android is rising, Nokia is falling and everything else is skewed as well.

    “It’s like basing your view of America’s food consumption on a sales report from Whole Foods — too much arugula, not enough Kraft Singles.”

    http://www.businessinsider.com/no-apples-iphone...
  • sebyfromsherby
    Am I wrong or it just doesn't go well at all for Nokia. I also seen statistics saying Nokia lost 2 points in marketing share, basically going to BlackBerry and a little to the IPhone (Gartner - http://sebastiensimard.com/la-guerre-des-grande...).