Nokia today unveiled several new devices and services. Global recession or not.
The world’s largest handset vendor used its annual ‘Nokia World‘ event – this year held in Stuttgart, Germany – to showcase the Nokia N97 mini (below), one of two new devices supporting its ‘Comes With Music’ service, and an application in partnership with Facebook.
Nokia’s N97 mini is a smaller version of its predecessor, and features a tilting 3.2 inch display, QWERTY keyboard and a customisable homescreen. It is expected to begin shipping next month for EUR450 or around $640 in the United States, unlocked, and probably less if AT&T or T-Mobile decide to subsidize the phone.
Nokia’s new X3 and X6 music phones will launch in the fourth quarter. Both new X-series devices support Nokia’s unlimited download Comes With Music application, which has received mixed reviews from initial launches in Europe and Asia but is marketed as a far cheaper rival to Apple’s iTunes music library.
The Nokia X6 improves over the older 5800 model with a better camera and more on-board storage along with WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0, and A-GPS, plus a 3.5mm headphone jack.
Nokia is pushing Lifecasting with Ovi in a new partnership with Facebook. The X6 integrates with Facebook and will cost also around $US640 (unlocked).
Nokia completed its announcement of its 3G Netbook today at Nokia World. The Atom powered Netbook comes with an HDMI port for HD video out, a front facing camera, integrated Bluetooth and an integrated A-GPS with a 3G cellular modem and WiFi. It will cost €575 (US$816) before subsidies and taxes.
In other news, Nokia Siemens Networks founding CEO has resigned and will be replaced by another long-term Nokia executive as the two-year-old company battles it out in a consolidating carrier-infrastructure industry.
Nearly 162 million smartphones were sold last year, surpassing laptop sales for the first time, according to Informa. Gartner says there were 139.3 million smartphone sales in 2008, up 14% compared to 2007.
Informa predicts smartphone penetration of 13.5 percent this year, reaching 38 percent by 2013. Last year, just under half of smartphones sold were based on Symbian — a drop of 16 percentage points from the year before.
In the US, the market share is heavily skewed towards the iPhone.
Motorola, once a Windows Mobile loyalist, is now focusing its development resources behind Google’s Android OS, notes Om Malik. Both HTC and Motorola are developing their own user interfaces for Android. Lenovo, Huawei, Dell and Samsung, partners of Microsoft in the past, are also betting on Android.
Apple saw the largest rise in its share of the global smartphone market in 2Q09, rising from a 2.8 percent share in 2Q08 to 13.3 percent. With 5.4 million iPhones units in the quarter (a 51 percent growth), Apple retained the number three position in the smartphone market, which it has held since 3Q08. Nokia continued to lead the smartphone market but saw its share decline from 47.4 percent to 45 percent despite an uplift in unit sales.
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