Kantar Worldpanel’s report for 3 months ending December 2013 is out and it is looks like a mixed news package for Windows Phone. While Year-On-Year basis it posted impressive growth, if you compare it to the reports for October and November, you will see the Europe sales share slightly growing to 10.3% from 10% in November, which is not half bad considering new iPhone’s onslaught.
- In Spain market, the Windows Phone market share seems on its way up and has now touched record 5.6%.
- But, it has lost in China badly and now commands shockingly low 1.1% sales share.
- In Italy as well, it has grown to 17%.
- Sales share has dropped slightly in France and Germany while is on its way up in UK.
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One more interesting fact comes into picture from the report about UK market. Nokia smartphones were the 3rd most gifted smartphones in UK and more than 1/3rd of smartphones bought in UK in December were gifts.
34% of smartphones bought in December were gifts, up from 30% in 2012. Samsung was the top gifted smartphone manufacturer with 30.7%, followed by Apple at 28.4% and Nokia at 17.6%.
