According to the latest tally of Counterpoint, Nokia has landed as the top four smartphone in the U.S market for the third quarter of this year.
Counterpoint Technology Market Monitor is a company that delivers an in-detail intelligence of the technology markets. The research company tallied up U.S. smartphone shipments in the third quarter of 2013 in able to come up with the report.
During the third quarter of 2013, the total market share of Nokia in the USA Smartphone OEM Shipments Market closed at 4.1 percent. While Apple and Samsung had a tight fight having 33.7 percent and 33.6 percent respectively. LG is in the third spot garnering 8.6 percent and Motorola comes behind Nokia with 3.7 percent.
Nokia’s share of percentage though figuratively not as big as the two leading smartphone brands, is quite astounding considering that it just had less than one percent share in the third quarter of last year.
The success of the Finnish company may have been due to the triumph of its Nokia Lumia and continuous enhancement of its operating system, the Microsoft’s Windows 8.
However, it may Nokia some time before it can go at par with the features and quality of Apple’s iPhone and Samsung’s Galaxy.
Undoubtedly, given the cruel reality, the resurgent smartphone company is surely partying for surpassing and surviving the complicated comeback
The success of the Nokia Lumia may have attributed to the return of the Espoo, Finland-based smartphone company to the spotlight.
On the other hand, according to another report from Strategic Analytics, Chinese smartphone manufacturers Huawei and Lenovo have gotten 12.7 percent and 12 percent respectively of market shares leaving Nokia behind. The report serves as a warning for the struggling company that it will need to break a thick wall and fight fiercely before it can fully return to the spotlight it used to have before Apple came in the picture.
