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tranced Posts: > 500

Market researcher IDC expects Android to surpass 40% of the smartphone market by the end of the year and reach as much as 44% by 2015. Nokia's Symbian platform will remain the number two smartphone system this year, but will fall further to 20.6% from its high of nearly 80%. By 2015, Symbian will be a ghost with just 0.1% of the market.

Battling it out for numbers three, four, and five in the rankings? The usual suspects: Apple iOS, BlackBerry OS, and Windows Phone. IDC expects that at the end of the year, iOS will have 18.2% of the market, BlackBerry OS will have 14.2%, and Windows Phone will have 3.8%.

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[ This Message was edited by: tranced on 2011-06-09 19:37 ]

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Posted: 2011-06-09 20:36:11
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skblakee Posts: > 500

Can't argue with much of that. Android is moving quickly up the ladder with IOS holding its own. I am not to convinced yet, one Windows Phone and Nokia but will wait and see.

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Posted: 2011-06-09 20:56:00
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razec Posts: > 500

I still remember back on 2007 where we were still arguing about the future of Android, whether it can kill symbian or not
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Posted: 2011-06-13 11:06:05
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skblakee Posts: > 500

I would say that Symbian and Nokia killed Symbian. Android just helped to bury it.
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Posted: 2011-06-13 14:43:42
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tranced Posts: > 500

Homicide and suicide!

IMO, I won't say Symbian was killed. I think people wanted to try something different and, ironically, Google had the answer.
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Posted: 2011-06-13 16:32:43
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skblakee Posts: > 500

Yes but I don't so many wanted to try something else that they would kill of Symbian as has happened. I think that Symbian failed to evolve and be on par or better than IOS, WM and Android.

I'd say as you did, suicide and murder.

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Posted: 2011-06-13 16:59:46
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Tsepz_GP Posts: > 500

Nokia, Apple and Google killed Symbian.

It all started with the N96, and then the N97. Nokia were putting poor hardware in the flagships, the N96 had an old ARM9 CPU that had a great video chip but poor at everything else, it was slow and had awful build quality and a tiny 950mAh batt, filled with bugs to.
N97 came in and again, poor hardware: 128mb RAM on a OS that required 256mb, very little internal mem (not to be confused with the 32GB mass mem), unstable, build quality issues etc...
Inbetween those two devices there was a whole lot of average devices e.g. N85, N79, 5800, etc... Nokia's range had simply lost all the innovative hardware and spark the N93, N95, N82 etc... had, at the same time Apple released the iPhone3G then the 3GS and then the iPhone4, whilest from Google we had the Htc Hero, NexusOne and then an on slaught of Android based high ends from Samsung, HTC, SE, LG, MOTOROLA etc... all of which had incredible internal hardware, high quality apps and games etc... by the time Nokia released the N8 it was already far too late.

If Nokia had just brought the N8 a year before, so basicaly if they had released it along side the Satio and OmniaHD, and with the focus on UI optimization and on devs they have now, we would be watching a 3horse race, not two (Android and iOS).

Nokia opened the flood gates with their own incompetence, and now Stephen Elop is trying to clean up the mess but it seems to be only getting worse.
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Posted: 2011-06-13 19:38:35
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skblakee Posts: > 500

@Tsepz What is your experience with Android on the Galaxy Tab 10.1 unless of course you don't have it yet?

I agree with all that you said by the way and having tablets to further Android only makes things worse for Symbian and Nokia much like iPhone owners who also have Macs.
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Posted: 2011-06-13 19:57:31
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Tsepz_GP Posts: > 500

skblakee

Ive had the Tab10.1v for about a month now, VodaCom (Vodafone SA) released it beginning of May. So far the experience is good, its fantastic for web browsing, games, ebooks and even watching movies, main issue is the lack of Android3.0 optimized apps, many apps work BUT they dont always take advantage of the full screen real estate, whilest the ones that are 3.0 optimized are an absolute pleasure to use.

Another letdown is lack of messaging and USSD code support, no the Messaging apps in Market ennt work either, it can recieve Messages but not send.

Mine is the Tab10.1v, voda exclusive AFAIK so it has a 8.1mp camera and 1080p video recording but no MicroSD slot, so im stuck at 16GB internal.
The normal Tab10.1 has a 3mp with 720P video and MicroSD slot.
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Posted: 2011-06-13 20:11:58
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skblakee Posts: > 500

Thanks Tsepz . I don't want to go off topic too much but from what I am seeing none of the Galaxy 10.1 have the MicroSD slot. Very disappointing for me.

Back to topic...I see Android going much further as they get a better hold of the Tablets Apps. Symbian could have been here at this point.
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Posted: 2011-06-13 21:00:09
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