iPhone grabs 20%+ smartphone market share in the land of Nokia

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According to Kotek statictics 435 000 smartphones were sold in Finland last year. If TeliaSonera executive was actually referring to smartphones then TeliaSonera sold more than 91 000 iPhones in Finland last year.

Now you can be happy that Apple still has a low market share in Finland!! Rejoice

Find someone Finnish who can explain all the detail to you.

Until then you can continue to be the dull, boring sceptic you want to be.

That news flash is more a summer news than anything else. TeliaSonera can't access other networks handset details.

Just a few years ago it was illegal to sell subvented phones so the carrier sales figures don't really tell the full picture, a lot of people don't buy their phones from the carriers. Company phones are very common and many bigger companies still have a limited number of handsets approved, mostly from Nokia. Again, those phone come from resellers, not the carriers directly.

There's a Modeling of Mobile Internet Usage and Business project at the Aalto University (http://www.netlab.tkk.fi/tutkimus/momi/index.html) that has handset details from all the carriers but as Nokia is one of the partners, they don't publish TeliaSonera's iPhone details. But in 2009 Nokia had 88.7%, Samsung 5.7%, Sony/Ericsson 3.3%, Benq/Siemens 0.6% and others 1.7%. That 1.7% includes both iPhone and HTC's.

When it comes to the actual data traffic, with the cheap flat-rate data subscriptions and USB sticks, 98% of the data traffic is with computers / laptops. The growth has been quite substantial, from 2000 Gbytes/day in 2007 to 20000 Gbytes/day in 2009.

Nokia should be worried!

Years ago when phones were just phones, I used to buy Nokia because I was familiar with their menu system. I know this was the main reason most of my friends did too. Other manufacturers often made a bit of a hash of it, there were far fewer handset makers and the tech was massively low compared to today.

When graphical (icon based) screens started to arrive, people started to drift because using the menus became easier and the familiarity aspect was no longer a requirement.

The big game in mobile phones is the high end smart phone arena. Nobody wants to be left making the cheap profit less £30 handsets. I think Nokia has may have to resign themselves to this though because I think they have already lost the high end battle!

It doesn't really matter if they make some awesome interface now, the smartphone requires a lot of other tech to back it up. Nokia got left behind when computing companies like Apple (with that expertise) got involved in mobile devices.

What good is a handset that can play music and video when you haven't got a decent media solution to provide it??
Love it or hate it, iTunes is Apples golden ticket at the moment that even Android can't compete with.

Everybody's lives revolve around a media lifestyle these days and years ago Apple recognised this and built OSX around a media lifestyle. Even Microsoft got complacent and left behind. When I migrated to OSX, it was bliss, I have all these tools to manage my digital life, be it photo's, music, videos.
Back on Windows all I had was media player which was awful. If I wanted to manage my photo's, I had to look to a 3rd party package and you can bet that whilst there would have been several choices, one company would do one thing better than the other and visa-versa, so I always felt reluctant to spend the time investing money and effort in any of them!

OSX, iOS, iTunes, iMac's and iDevices manage the whole media lifestyle package seamlessly!

As more and more people get involved with Apple kit, they realise the media management suits them too and that is why Apple has become the 2nd largest tech company is the USA!

I think the original article is somewhat exaggerated. They are quoting TeliaSonera executive (official iPhone carrier in Finland) who says something along the lines: "if you look at phones that the internet, services and apps are truly used with, iPhone has a notable share of 20%".

The article didn't say, but I'm fairly sure that the numbers in this case are from TeliaSonera alone. I don't think they have the statistics of internet usage on other networks (two major carriers in addition to TS in Finland). So in other words, iPhone has a market share of 20% of all the internet traffic in TeliaSonera's network. That seems plausible to me.

However, this isn't directly comparable to market share. I'm fairly sure that Nokia still has >80% *market share* in smart phones in Finland, but on the other hand I'm also sure that an average iPhone user uses more data per month compared to an average Nokia phone user.

Only losers buy Nokia.

I like Nokia's 6800 series but the lately model E70 is too expensive for me. That's why iPhone had me interesting already.

I suppose there are some public numbers from other carriers that they've compared their iPhone sales to.

But what's with the picture in the article? The signs state "The old railroad station" and "Art store" in them. Related to Nokia? Not.