More than half of the WP-selling smartphone - Nokia

Some time ago, HTC has announced that more than half of the market for smartphones running Windows Phone, marketed under its brand. But at that time the company Nokia, which is firmly tied its future to the OS, just started to market their models and it was clear that to win this competition in the Taiwanese can not. If for no other reason that their main efforts are focused on smartphones running Android. As soon as Nokia to increase production of its smartphones, HTC share continued to fall, as do all other manufacturers. Therefore a matter of time was when, in what quarter the share of Nokia is more than half of all smartphones running on Microsoft. According to Localytics, it is already here. Nokia in May was 50% of all smartphones running Windows Phone 7, in June - 55%, and in July - 59%, so definitely take the lead in this market segment. These data correlate well with the data of most Nokia, which in the first quarter of 2012, 2.2 million were sold Lumia, and the second - 4 million. These results have allowed Microsoft to report 312% rise in sales of smartphones running WP in the first half of 2012. What Nokia received $ 750 million. But on the main North American market for Microsoft's not so rosy. Lumia sales in the U.S. started in January and Nokia managed to increase its share to 32%, with a marked increase was able to demonstrate only from March to May, when Nokia's share rose from 13% to 28%. In the future, the growth rate fell to 2% in the month. As a result, Finns behind the HTC 4%, even though they had gone Samsung, which share in the first six months fell from 36% to 26%. Absolute increase in sales of Nokia in the U.S. was 273%, which is also lower than the world total.