Momma Bear
12-08-2009, 08:57 PM
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Google still has a ways to go in Europe where Symbian reigns supreme. Although Europeans easily recognize the Google brand, Android itself is still pretty foreign to them. It’s not surprising since there aren’t many Android offerings there, but numbers are still below expectations. At the end of the third quarter, Android’s market share in Western Europe was at 5.4%. “The lack of devices available didn’t help to raise awareness, though this is expected to change, with more handsets from LG, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, and other vendors hitting the market soon,” says IDC analyst Francisco Jeronimo. Right now, Nokia and Symbian are still at the top spot for Western Europe, but Samsung is surprisingly getting close to overtaking Nokia. How many of our European pals out there are using Android devices?
source (http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/12/08/android-isnt-so-hot-in-europe-nokia-and-symbian-still-number-one/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheBoyGeniusReport+%28Boy+Gen ius+Report%29&utm_content=Google+Reader)
My theory is because Europe gets hot and fun phones you can do things with. We here in America unless you get an unlocked phone have to put up with the garbage we get. We have just recently started getting good phones HTC/Nokia but I think a couple years after they were released in Europe :err: Angela just got the Nokia N900 it has flash, you can download from torrents on it I mean it's a hell of a phone and Nokia tells you to hack it, you could if you wanted put Ubuntu on the phone.
So my point is yes Symbian and Nokia will still reign over Google/Android until they can do something the other companies can't and haven't been for years.
Google still has a ways to go in Europe where Symbian reigns supreme. Although Europeans easily recognize the Google brand, Android itself is still pretty foreign to them. It’s not surprising since there aren’t many Android offerings there, but numbers are still below expectations. At the end of the third quarter, Android’s market share in Western Europe was at 5.4%. “The lack of devices available didn’t help to raise awareness, though this is expected to change, with more handsets from LG, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, and other vendors hitting the market soon,” says IDC analyst Francisco Jeronimo. Right now, Nokia and Symbian are still at the top spot for Western Europe, but Samsung is surprisingly getting close to overtaking Nokia. How many of our European pals out there are using Android devices?
source (http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/12/08/android-isnt-so-hot-in-europe-nokia-and-symbian-still-number-one/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheBoyGeniusReport+%28Boy+Gen ius+Report%29&utm_content=Google+Reader)
My theory is because Europe gets hot and fun phones you can do things with. We here in America unless you get an unlocked phone have to put up with the garbage we get. We have just recently started getting good phones HTC/Nokia but I think a couple years after they were released in Europe :err: Angela just got the Nokia N900 it has flash, you can download from torrents on it I mean it's a hell of a phone and Nokia tells you to hack it, you could if you wanted put Ubuntu on the phone.
So my point is yes Symbian and Nokia will still reign over Google/Android until they can do something the other companies can't and haven't been for years.