Nokia

We learned a lot at Apple's 2011 Q3 Earnings call, and today Financial Times reports that the Apple has surpassed Nokia as the world's biggest smartphone producer by volume. Some numbers: The troubled Finnish mobile phone maker made a net loss of €368m ($524m) during the three-month period as revenues declined 7 per cent to €9.3bn. Shipments of Nokia smartphones...

According to a new IHS iSuppli report, Apple's iPhone sales in Q1 propelled it to achieve double-digit growth in the smartphone market, eluding an overall decline in smartphone shipments in the first quarter. Apple shipped 18.6 million iPhones, up 14.9% (16.2 million a year ago), and their increase was the highest growth among its competitors,...

Galen Gruman on the failure of mobile products from RIM, Microsoft, and Nokia: RIM particularly played up its cozy relationship with security- and control-minded CIOs who would never let such toys into the enterprise. Nokia and Microsoft had the same paternalistic, insular point of view. (Dell’s story is more like that of the OEMs—I’ll get...

With yesterday's Q2 2011 earnings call by Apple, another milestone has been reached by the surging California-based company. Apple is now the world's largest handset maker by revenue. Apple’s revenues from the iPhone: $11.9 billion for the quarter Nokia's revenues from all phones: $9.4 billion for the quarter Apple iPhones shipped: 18.6 million Nokia's handsets...

With HP introducing the Pre 3 and Veer running the latest version of WebOS, it gave smartphone customers even more choice. The latest news comes from Nokia and Microsoft, as both companies have announced a partnership. In an open letter written by both CEOs, Steve Ballmer and Stephen Elop describe the focus of this new...

In an interesting read from our friends at 9to5Mac, Nokia CEO Stephan Elop speaks candidly about Nokia's position in the smartphone market. I won't quote the whole article but at one point Elop comments, "The first iPhone shipped in 2007, and we still don’t have a product that is close to their experience.". They go...

A recent survey by German research firm Gfk noted that Apple iPhone users are the most loyal compared to other smartphone brands. According to Reuters: "Loyalty with a handset is a lot more complicated these days in that people buy into experiences at the high-end level," Ryan Garner, the lead analyst on the survey, told...

Recently we debated about whether or not Apple would win the current smartphone "war". With real competition finally on the rise, how will Apple respond? What's more interesting is analyzing which companies haven't responded and putting all this data into easy to read flow charts. This is what Horace Dediu has done on his blog,...