comScore: Windows Phone Market Share Down To 6.7% In Europe

September 13, 2011 | By Pradeep

comScore today released data on smartphone landscape in Europe. Nokia was the top loser which lost about 16% and Android was the top gainer with 16% up from previous year. Its very clear that Android is gaining on Symbian. Apple’s iOS market share almost remains flat at 20.3% as RIM with 9.4%. Microsoft lost 4.8% from 11.5%, leaving it to single digit market share of 6.7%. Hope Windows Phone Mango release followed by Nokia Windows Phone devices this year will change the trend for Windows Phone platform.

About Pradeep Viswav

Pradeep was a Microsoft Student Partner when he was pursuing his Computer Science & Engineering degree. He now works for a MNC. He is passionate about technology and loves to share his knowledge with people. People used to mention him as “A Geek who is not Nerd”. He was fascinated by the Metro Design language and Windows Phone which made him to follow and develop applications for it. Follow him at twitter.com/pradeepviswav

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Anonymous

Wow Symbian is the first and the olders os for mobile phones. But i cant belive Microsoft is last on the list…. But they will for sure come in the top 3 when Windows 8 Come out for mobile!
Anonymous

Right, it is not Windows Phone that has lost market percentage, it is Windows Phone AND Windows Mobile IE all MS phone OS’s. Come on Pradeep, you should know this and not write a factually incorrect headline!!

I wish for once one of these damn polls would actually separate out the two as that would give a better oversight of how things are going.

Anonymous

Correct, I could have mentioned it as Microsoft’s Mobile market share. I meant Windows Phones as a collective one..

http://twitter.com/bnlf Bruno Nunes

actually even microsoft is using the term Windows Phone for pre-wp7 so i think its correct to say windows phones.

http://chmun77.myopenid.com/ Claypot77

Well, if WP7 is really doing well, there shouldn’t be a dip at all. Who cares if it is WM or WP7? If WP7 is managed to get as much market share like Android, I bet you will not even bother is WM or not.

Anonymous

thats not the point. its too earl for wp7

Anonymous

The headline isn’t actually all that wrong. YES Windows Mobile users are declining, causing the number to go down. However Windows Phone is unable to even keep pace with that, let alone grab new market share. So Windows Phone does share in that responsibility, so it should share that number till it is big enough to stand on its own.

Harry van der Beek

They’d better did a universal launch of WP. And indeed, it’s mostly Windows Mobile who is ‘losing’ which is a good thing i think. The sooner consumers will see that WP is nothing like Windows Mobile

Anonymous

Yes, it is WM-users that reduce the market share. But the question MS has to ask itself: “Why don’t they switch to WP7, but to something else (Android most likely)?”

http://www.facebook.com/people/Sergey-Durnov/100000964100298 Sergey Durnov

Oh you troll, Pradeep

http://chmun77.myopenid.com/ JustFacts

Can’t bear to see that the number has drop, while Android has hike for higher points again? LOL
Anonymous

Don’t know if that’s trolling (the tone definitely is), but I agree with many of the reasons he gave. I love the UI of WP7, but functionally, Android seems far more a successor to WM 6.5 than WP7. And it is not “not implemented yet”-features (although there are some too), but mostly conscious decisions in the name of “security” and “ease of use” that take away important things that I – and I can only assume others – find important (file system, common storage, mass storage mode, customizing, tethering (yes, yes Mango _might_ bring it), expandable storage (really expandable without having to format your system)…). Android has them, WP7 has not, which is really unfortunate, because the Metro UI looks so good.

Win8 on tablets reportedly will have all these features + Metro UI, so it will make me happy I hope. I just wish they would downport this stuff to the smartphones too, instead of treating the users like being too stupid to use them (those people already bought iPhones a long time ago…)

PS: I also agree with his point about the US-centric services. Google has them too (still waiting for Google Music after all), but in MS most of the major features that require Bing or online services aren’t available here in Europe.

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JFRSB7FFT2UK2MD4VIW7O5IRUQ kim

MS, it’s now time to wake up and analyze the reasons why.

Apparently all the former WinMo fan base has switch to Android rather than to the locked down WP7.

You cannot simply base the success of the OS only on the Metro UI as MS did.
Once again, there are too many features missing, not only poweruser features, but also a lot of very basic features.

As I already said, my next phone will be an Android device after years of loyalty to Windows Mobile.

I need flexibility, I need USB storage, I need drag & drop my files easily from any PC to my smartphone, I need the brilliant and international Google services instead of the crappy and US-centric Microsoft services (Bing does not work in my country), I need DivX|Avi, etc…

I feel sorry for Microsoft if they cannot understand this.
Last week-end I tried the Galaxy S II of my cousin. I was amazed by all the features, all the services that WP7 doesn’t have.

http://chmun77.myopenid.com/ Bento77

Sad but true. I switched to Android too after my last HD2.

Anonymous

An OS, no matter how good it is, cannot increase its share of the smartpoine market without having quality phones readily available to customers. This is where the MS approach to Windows phones fell down. Like some of the posters below, I liked the flexibility of WM 6.0 and 6.5, It is like having a little PC. But I suspect the locked nature of WP7 is important only to a minority of phone purchasers. What is important for market share is being able to walk into a store and get a good, up to date device. Right now, in the US, it is all RIM and Google, unless you go to the Apple store. MS needs to address the hardware availability issue to make inroads. Right now, it seems like all the WP news is about the next handsets that will come out in the future. You can’t sell, and customers cannot buy, what is only available in the future.

Anonymous

“But I suspect the locked nature of WP7 is important only to a minority of phone purchasers.”

Which is obvious from the horrible sales of the iPhone …

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JFRSB7FFT2UK2MD4VIW7O5IRUQ kim

Android is flexible and sells far better.

A smartphone shall be a small PC in my opinion. Android is, WP7 isn’t

Wrong strategy, wrong decisions, and here we are… WP7 isn’t popular and also lost the WinMo fanbase

Anonymous

confirmed…. you are DUMB wmpower person…. in july 2010 there wasn’t ANY windows phone 7 yet! so wp percent number should be considere as a ‘first ever percent number for wp’