Comments on: You’ll never guess who was the big smartphone winner last quarter

By: dcboy123

dcboy123 — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:58:08 +0000

But just like Nokia and HTC, essentially a household name as a Phone maker, that had brand recognition in markets, people would go into a store and request a Nokia brand or HTC, or they did. Might be table scrapes, but penetrating a market place with comparable equipped devices that are cheaper and readily accessible has to count for something, like building a strong base to leap frog the big boys at the table.

By: pjs_boston

pjs_boston — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:35:03 +0000

Consider that the average sell price of the iPhone remained unchanged at $650 and iPhone market share remained stable at around 22%. Meanwhile, Android phone ASP’s have plummeted to $350 or less. As a result, Apple has >40% renenue share and >70% profit share of the global market. So, I’d say Apple was big winner, once again skimming off the cream of the market while the others fight for table scraps.

By: saidimu apale

saidimu apale — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 16:07:05 +0000

Not just in China either.

Friends in Kenya tell me Huawei smartphones and tablets are quite popular and far cheaper than the also popular Samsung smartphones and phab/tablets.

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:48:27 +0000

Good question; I’ll have to dig around — not even sure there’s a place indicating the exact number, but I’d suspect it’s more like 100+, not just a few dozen. I say that because of many small companies in Asia building low-cost Androids. Google should know how many are licensing Android so I’ll see if I can get that figure for starters….

By: gotirrell

gotirrell — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:31:46 +0000

I’m interested in how large the “Others” category continues to be. Is this the long tail of smartphone manufacturers? I couldn’t see it in the IDW press release, but does anyone know how many of those there are?