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Sorry Microsoft and Apple, you may have had some fancy smartphone sales that year in your cute little American way, but globally there’s no question who’s the real leader in that segment: the Symbian OS shipped on 77.3 million units in 2007. That’s a 50% growth by 2006 sales, with by 141 different phone models from eight licensees. whether the new hotness from Nokia that year at MWC is any indication, those numbers aren’t going to go away very

soon, but Sony Ericsson’s adoption of Windows Mobile for its flagship XPERIA X1 certainly spells a modicum of trouble for Symbian land. Of course, there are many more low-end Symbian smartphones than there are cheap Windows Mobile phones, and Apple’s iPhone is still a premium product , but the line is becoming increasingly blurred.

 

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Original post by Paul Miller