FOX Business has some shocking news about the smartphone market. It turns out there are other phones out there other than the Apple iPhone. Last Thursday, Microsoft Mobile Communications Group Manager Scott Rockfield appeared with BusinessWeek writer Arik Hesseldahl to show off a variety of upcoming and existing Windows Mobile 6.1 devices in the six-minute segment.
The segment also references some smartphone market share figures from Nielsen Mobile which show BlackBerry at number 1 with 31.1%, Windows Mobile with 20.6%, Palm OS with 16.9%, and Apple iPhone with 12.2%. That’s for the 2nd quarter of 2008. During the first quarter, Windows Mobile was actually number 1 with 25.2% according to Nielsen’s research.
Source: WindowsForDevices
Originally published on Pocketnow on September 3, 2008. More Smartphone News articles from the Pocketnow archive.