Symbian still the top mobile OS for 2011 says Stat Counter?
Some details from Statcounter shows Symbian to still be the top mobile OS in 2011 as reported by webpronews.
According to their stats, Symbian started at 30% at the beginning of the year, but it rocketed to 33.58% in June. This dipped in October to 29% but went back up to 33.63%. I’m not sure precisely what these are percentages of, I’m guessing total users as opposed to sales.
Nokia’s had a major change of strategy away from a Symbian focus, and also had a pretty poor portfolio compared to the competition – with both of those going against it, it is indeed remarkable to be as strong as statcounter suggests.
Source: webpronews
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Symbian is in the market since a long time, before other mobile os. And is still one of the hotest, no matter the android geeks say.
Its all marketing that symbian is dead
you are absolutly right
WOW, Symbian still the best, already have the splendid Symbian Belle in my N8 and waiting for Symbian Carla :p
Symbian Carla? Where did that came from? I’m symbian app developer and yet didn’t got the news about it. Is Belle official out world wide through update manager?
east or west SYMBIAN is the best….
symbian is the mother os of smart phns.
old mom
Mom is always a Mom.
+1
Symbian iz mom n nokia is dad
nice couple….
WP is the whore who keeps on seducing the Dad!!!!! Pitiful Mom crying in the corner with her babies!!!!!
Dad or dead?
I think it’s worth noting that the OS Nokia has bet it’s smartphone business on is just a part of the dotted line at the bottom of the graph.
I’m not saying I’m against that but Nokia either needs to make WP break free of that little dotted line and rise to the top of the graph. OR go with what the graph clearly shows customers want (critical for any business remember) and put all the emphasis back on Symbian.
I mean, the customer’s always right, right?
“I mean, the customer’s always right, right?”
That doesn’t apply in Elopian economics. In Elopian economics Microsoft/Ballmer is always right and customer’s job is to unconditionally accept whatever they might offer and rejoice.
Why dont you just go ahead and buy a samsung device?? At least ypur contributing to yhe anti wp cause, rather than bullshiting things elop or microsoft never said.
no doubt you have put ur name as Troll.
Go Kiss Elop’s ass lol
you cant attack my arguement so you attack me?
moron.
Firstly you had no argument, saying to some one to go and buy a “samsung device” Is not an argument but a silly insult.
Secondly personal attacks is all you do here, so “you had it coming”.
what utter fail. if you dont like what nokia is doing, insulting its ceo wont yield anything. all im suggesting is to voice your opinion with your wallets not with the sarcastic attitude.
just because you were born a little fucked up you-dont have to take everything as an insult.
“Elopian economics”
LOL – you legend.
+1!
and a burning platform was resurrected….
that chart cannot be the sales. the sales are much lower. that is users. remember that until Q1 this year, nokia sold as many symbians as android and iOS combined in 2010. so such a chrt is not hard to believe.
StatCounter tracks website usage so this would be an indication of mobile browser usage.
You might argue that iOS and Android’s poor showing is because much of their net usage is via apps, not browsers.
The same can be said about Symbian though. Most apps i downloaded on my N8 are connecting to internet.
What I meant was that there’s an app for pretty much anything on the other platforms but on Symbian you may have to make do with a website.
That stat is not for broswer. Check this stat: http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_browser-ww-monthly-201012-201111
These stats are for browsing. http://gs.statcounter.com/faq#methodology
Symbian’s huge user base isn’t going to disappear in under a year. People seem to forget that Symbian was still the best selling smartphone OS just a year ago. Most people don’t buy a new phone in every six months or every year like the blogosphere’s smartphone geeks might do.
Besides Symbian is still the number two seller behind Android. It’s not like Symbian sales have totally stopped and dropped to zero.
Now, where’s the almighty WP7? Even Bada made to the list.
I can’t spot Windows, where is it?
http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_os-US-monthly-201012-201111
Or you can switch it to whatever country you want stats from…
Wow, even not a bleep after the Mango update, WP in the US is almost below zero or better, all over the universe, but especially in the States you suspect some decent numbers.
You know what those stats remind-me? Linux desktop usage percentage some people like to make fun of
. WP the linux desktop of the mobile space, just that in this case they spend millions on advertisements and almost hostile market takeover.
But even in the US they cant get past that the 1% quota, heck symbian started with 1.19% and ended with 4.66%. And the data seams to pretty well match, the general US perception that, only iOS and Android exist.
exactly… this is what I was wondering… other or unknown??
I’d probably still buy a new Symbian device if they were in the shops. Especially so if the rumoured dual core N8 successor makes an appearance – the camera on my SGS2 isn’t good enough to replace the N8 for that but everything else definitely is.
I think I can explain , nokia x 7 came in middle of year so 33.% , and nokia 701 came in september so again rise in percentage. but stll symbian has got unique interface , esp belle.
…which is why we must immediately change our full focus into shrinking Windows Phone.
Of course. What could be wiser than to abandon world’s biggest smartphone OS and switch to an OS that is one of the smallest, generally unwanted and dying. That’s just pure business genius. /s
+++++elop is a genius dont you know
even though symbian is/was the largest, but many ppl doesn’t seem to know it’s existence..
“but many ppl doesn’t seem to know it’s existence”
Is way better than it really does not exist, it really does not see wp on the graph? Yeap it’s not even there. And it’s not like it cammed out yesterday, its turning 2 years now.. And so far its as lost quota for Microsoft in the mobile world.
Wonder what the Sony Ericsson and Samsung OSs (other than Bada for the latter) listed in the “Top 8 OSs” chart are?
Since those are based on internet presence, I guess it reads the OS by the browser User-Agent header. If SE is branding the browsers in their devices differently, that might explain it…
Also, SE has had a line of Symbian devices with their UIQ shell, but I doubt they are that widely available…
Also, it never claimed that it covers only smartphone OSes – this might as well include SE’s featurephone OSes…
Yeah, that’s what I thought too. But that would the beg the question: where are the hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of millions of S40 phones? Are they lumped to the “Symbian OS”? I would imagine that if they are not, they would have to show up if SE phones show up!
I don’t think the S40 devices are in the Symbian count. They should mostly be under Unknown or Other OS.
Could well be “Unknown”. It can’t well be Other if SE and Samsug AND Bada separately rank so high.
For a future Nokia OS, they should combine the best parts of Meego and Symbian!
No way I’m gonna buy a Nokia Windows Phone!
There’s nice improvement since 500/603/700/701 were introduced. Symbian is obviously still attracting many people. Imagine if they had autofocus cameras and higher screen resolution. Let’s hope N8′s successor will be Symbian based and ready asap.
Symbian is 4th in Europe with 10.19% of the mobile usage and 4th in the North America with 6%.
And c’mon. We know where the money is.
China?
China is now the biggest smartphone market by volume, but US is obviously still biggest by revenue.
Western Europe & North America combined make only 25% of the world market and they are almost saturated at this time. The Biggest makret currently is the Asian with China & India combined making up more than 25% and they are still growing..
Wait a minute… Where is WP7? Ha ha ha!
i agree whit Jen maemo harmattan and SYMBIAN are the best for nokia dont go brak wiht WP ,BECAUSE THIS sheet have no good sales even in EUA, his land , and MS have already destroied many industries before, now the target is nokia ,then be careful Nokia
this proves that nokia and symbian are well needed together and there is no need for wp7…time and money well wasted on wp7 since symbian has the new look,new hardware,better services,more apps..which is all they needed to do,,,no need fo another OS if they where successful..if they are this powerful with one OS
i suspected this might happen as soon as they fixed the browser, even i use it now.. So the better they make the brewers, the more that percentage will jump
hah oh text predict, how i love you
Bada is catching up being an OS from a single manufacturer, so bad Windows is not present in the chart.
Elop has done very nice job with symbian.