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Ouch. Nokia’s not doing so great with its new flagship Lumia 800, even with a £20m advertising budget. According to the FT, the Lumia 800 didn’t even break into the top ten phones sold in the UK, and barely sold more than its basic “Touch and Type” phones — those feature-class phones with a touchscreen and numeric keypad.
I know the Lumia 800 was only Nokia’s first attempt at a Windows Phone, and that it has to rebuild brand momentum; but it hasn’t exactly turned into the company’s saviour they hoped for, if it’s not even selling enough to break into the top ten on launch. For what it’s worth, it’s not a bad little phone; it just doesn’t cut the mustard against some stiff competition from the likes of the iPhone 4S, Galaxy S II, Galaxy Nexus and the plethora of other Android phones. [FT]
It’s certainly no fun being a Windows Phone Fan when your new OS still has a lower market share then Windows Mobile. They are supposed to be doing a massive relaunch of the platform in the US in the new year if that doesn’t gain you some traction I don’t know what will.
As a Windows Phone user, I’d have to agree with you. I think traction is being built up slowly but surely. Plus, Microsoft is fully comitted to the platform in the long term, with the integration you can expect out of Windows 8.
For the sake of all WP users, let’s hope they don’t pull another Zune.
WP7′s market share in Europe is 5.8% market share for 2011. Globally it is pretty sh*t but that should change as Nokia starts selling in more areas. Also if you follow the links back to the FT website it doesn’t actually show where they get their stats from. No sources probably = some ‘analyst’ pulling sales numbers out of his arse..
http://www.winrumors.com/windows-phone-set-to-secure-12-market-share-in-western-europe-during-2012/
not a surprise. Although the phone itself is really rather sexy. the UI is ugly as S**t. the end. metro UI is just looks cheap and incomplete.
That’s certainly one opinion. I certainly know many people that actually quite like the UI. Myself included.
Quite simply, because they are shit.
Whilst there is an army of viral marketeers online trying to convince everyone that it’s fantastic, that there is a grass-roots following, there are tonnes of developers and fantastic apps, the reality is actually VERY different…
Many consumers have wised up to the fact that almost everything on the internet is a lie, or an advert or some form of viral marketing.
But you just made a statement on the internet, thus by your own logic it must almost certainly be a lie, an advert or some form of viral marketing
Interesting article. I do think however that the results are a little skewed.
Considering that the bulk of Nokia’s marketshare have been coming from these basic “touch and type” phones, placing ahead of them, in terms of sales is definitely a postive thing.
There’s no chance – not now, and probably not in the near future of Windows Phone overtaking the iPhone in terms of sales. The iPhone has had much more time to develop it’s userbase and cultivate a massive community of developers.
Compared to other new platforms (i.e. WebOS and the new BB variants), Windows Phone has been performing pretty well, as an end user I’m missing very few “must-have” apps – Skype for example, should be on it’s way very soon, at which point I’ll have all the apps I need.
Again, this is a battle that was one by Android and iPhone many years ago – they were able to gain marketshare by being the first truly “smart” mobile platforms. But since when do things ever stay the same in tech?
Interesting that you compare WP to WebOS and BB. I’d have to say I’d look pretty healthy if standing next to a corpse and a dying old man too
Also hugely ironic that the one major smartphone platform without a skype app comes from skype’s owners.
Last week I chatted in several local phone stores and most of them admittd to not selling many Lumias but not giving me figures, the best info I got was Three who said they’d sold 5 or six in a month.
I have a range of apps on iOS, Android and WP7. On the former two they get hundreds of downloads a day, but on WP7, only about 5. That’s way lower even than the Amazon marketplace for apps which gets me a couple of dozen a day.
I know MS will stick with it, but WP7 is simply not attracting any interest, and I seriously doubt that it ever will – (and I’m spending lots of development time supporting it!)
When phone shops stop flogging cheap-ass Android phones to the older generations, Windows Phone may get a look in. I get lots of calls from family members who’ve been given these phones and have no idea how to use them.