Nokia's Finland-Fort bursts - Samsung missed

overtook Samsung in the first quarter of Nokia phone for sale in Finland, explained the research firm IDC. The change has been the increasing popularity of smart phones.

Samsung sold between January and March for the first time in Finland more phones than Nokia.

Nokia's market share sank in January-March to 33 per cent, while Samsung's rose by 36 per cent, estimates research firm IDC.Internationally, Nokia Samsung went back to the same time last year. Now, years later, the same thing happened in Finland, Nokia's traditionally strong at home.

Nokia and Samsung's rise has been rapid collapse. Even in the first months of 2010 Nokia's market share in Finland was 65 per cent, while Samsung's share fell to 12 per cent.

The third most popular phone manufacturer from Finland is Apple, which was this year's first quarter for iPhone 14 per cent market share.

Research firm IDC's figures are based on data collected from cell phone merchants.

The rise of smart phones has 
infected with Nokia

Were sold in Finland in January-March, a total of about 587 000 phone. Of these, 73 per cent of smart phones.

High margin smartphones, Samsung overtook Nokia in Finland as early as in July-September, shows IDC's data.

At that time, Nokia's smartphone sales dropped by 95 000 units, compared to April-June was still 174 000 smart phone. At the same time, Samsung's smartphone sales in Finland increased to 107 000 to 186 000 device.

At the end of last year, Nokia was Finnish smartphone sales number three on the farm when Apple went to a new phone, the iPhone 5 are for sale. Nokia was the first few months of this year to return to second place in shops of the Nokia Lumia 920, the phone makes.

According to IDC statistics, however, show how badly Nokia's Lumia phones have done the smart phone race up to the company's home ground. While smartphone sales have generally increased, so Nokia phones sales have mostly fallen.

Based Phones, Nokia has maintained its position as number one.It does not, however, of great importance, the demand for basic phones has collapsed.

Even in the first months of 2010 three quarters of the phones sold in Finland was based phones, but this year the beginning of the basic phone was content to every fourth mobile phone buyer.

At the same time Nokia has collapsed in the basic telephone sales. In January-March 2010, Nokia sold according to IDC, 237 500 basic phone, but this year the same time, Nokia sold them no longer only 98 000.

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