{"id":546691,"date":"2005-08-24T23:19:36","date_gmt":"2005-08-24T23:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/546691-nokia-a-sure-winner-in-the-global-3g-phone-market.html"},"modified":"2005-08-24T23:19:36","modified_gmt":"2005-08-24T23:19:36","slug":"nokia-a-sure-winner-in-the-global-3g-phone-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/546691-nokia-a-sure-winner-in-the-global-3g-phone-market.html","title":{"rendered":"Nokia a sure winner in the global 3G phone market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">The research done by Strategy Analytics reveals that a total of 9 million 3G (WCDMA) phones were shipped worldwide from April to June this year.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cAt 17 percent, Nokia\u2019s 3G market share is almost half its overall global total of 33 percent,\u201d stated Christ Ambrosio, director of Strategy Analytics Wireless Device Strategies service.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Ambrosio added that whilst the 3G phone market is in the early stages of development Nokia have managed to dominate this area of mobile technology, a worrisome issue for Asian vendors.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Nokia\u2019s phones are priced below US$200 wholesale which is one of the reasons they have managed to overtake the early market-leaders NEC and LG stated Ambrosio.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Strategy Analytics\u2019 Advanced Buyer Panel recently awarded the Nokia 6680 as the \u201cbest-in-class 3G phone on Western Europe\u201d stated Neil Mawston, associate director for wireless device strategies at Strategy Analytics.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Mawston added, \u201cStep by step, Nokia is regaining ground in high-end device segments that it has lost to Motorola, Samsung, LG and others over the last couple of years.\u201d<br \/><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nokia has managed to top the list of vendor-rankings for the first time scooping 17% of the global 3G wireless phone market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546691"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}