Windows Phone to grab 17% of smartphone market next year, analyst predicts

By on Jul 1, 2011 at 4:50 PM
mobile July 1, 2011

According to Chang Chi, the deputy head of Taiwan-based Market Intelligence Center, Windows Phone will have a 17% grip on the smartphone market next year. Chi said that Android’s share of the market in 2011 is 38%, followed by Symbian (23%), and iOS (18%). However, he expects Android’s market share to grow 2% next year, iOS to increase to a 19% share, and Windows Phone to skyrocket to a 17% share of the market. Chi also expects that HTC will surpass RIM and become the fourth largest smartphone maker in the world. Research firm IDC recently published a similar report that suggested Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system will be the No. 2 platform by 2015, surpassing both iOS and BlackBerry.

[Via wmpoweruser]

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  • Anonymous

    Windows Mobile at 17% is ALMOST as ridiculous as Symbian at 23%..

    This research firm is simply going for shock value in the hopes that online tech blogs, like BGR, pick up the story and post it. The more ridiculous of a claim that they can come up with, the more chances it will make people pay attention to them. If they came out with a report that’s vaguely accurate, they would be lost in the sea of every other research firm.

    Of course the very fact that BGR picked this up and we’re all sitting around talking about it says that their little ploy worked. Human beings are just so easy to manipulate..

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