Nokia is still the world's largest phone vendor but its place at the top of the food chain is looking shakier by the quarter.
In IDC's latest worldwide mobile phone market, the research firm indicated Nokia's market share slipped 20.3 percent year-over-year from 111.1 million units shipped last year to only 88.5 million this year. By comparison, Apple's shipments grew 141.8 percent going from 8.4 million units shipped last year to 20.3 million shipped this year. The numbers are a clear indication of the directions both phone manufacturers
Nokia, which has teamed up with Windows to try and produce enticing smartphones, has fallen behind miserably in the market. In a separate research report, Strategy Analytics detailed how Apple is now the world's largest seller of smartphones, ending Nokia's 15-year reign at the top. Nokia slipped to third place behind Samsung as well with its market share going from 38 percent a year ago to 15 percent this year.
Whether or not Nokia can make a comeback with its Windows Phone 7 phones is up in the air. What is certain is Apple is looking like a runaway freight train in terms of popularity.
Despite the fact the phone is more than a year old, Apple sold 20 million iPhone4s in the past quarter. When the iPhone 5 is finally released, its numbers could go through the roof.
Meanwhile, Samsung sits solidly in second place. Its lost market share to Apple but has gained it on Nokia. The company's Galaxy portfolio has done well and outsold anything Nokia has brought to the market said Neil Mawston, analyst at Strategy Analytics. The company's growth in terms of units shipped was 10 percent according to IDC.
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