"Windows Phone BlackBerry has overtaken '- Volkskrant

Edited by: editor – 05/16/13, 22:13 – Source: Reuters

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The third place behind Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS is conquered by Windows Phone. The mobile operating system from Microsoft seems to have overtaken BlackBerry is to make figures from market researcher IDC.

7 million shipped Windows Phone devices, Microsoft in the first three months of this year a market share of 3.2 percent. In the same period last year the company had to settle for 2 percent. BlackBerry came in at 6.2 million shipped smartphones, a market share of 2.9 percent. That was still 6.3 percent a year earlier.

“It’s the first time that Windows Phone the third place up and that’s a helping hand for Microsoft and Nokia ‘, let analyst Kevin Restivo of IDC know to CNET. “Given the relatively low trading volumes, Windows Phone still have to show to be accepted as an alternative to Android or iOS. More growth ‘

Despite the gains that have been achieved Windows Phone Android and iOS still dominant on the smartphone market. Android stood at 162.1 million units shipped during the quarter and had thus 75 percent of the market. Apple shipped 37.4 million iPhones, accounting for a market share of 17.3 percent.

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