Exit 40 therefore phones sold in the world

The World Congress of mobile telephony, which opens this morning in Barcelona, look sure to any. The first manufacturer in the world of mobile phones, Nokia, did not participate. The Finns decided not to stand in the Catalan capital and will not new models this year. Only its 50 subsidiary, specializing in infrastructure, Nokia Siemens Networks, will be on the show. The leaders of Nokia will only them, to their customers in a hotel of Barcelona. Exit 40 therefore phones sold in the world. Bad player, Nokia, since he lost his beautiful Apple and BlackBerry Perhaps... It must be said that the Finnish group, like many OEMs Telecom, going through a difficult pass. The economic crisis reduced net sales of Nokia nearly 10 billion euros last year. Where economies, and a desire to stand out competitors in deciding its own calendar of announcements. More question to be drowned in the mass. Is would the third global manufacturer, LG, stand, and the manufacturer of chips, Freescale. And as each year now three years ago fort to bet that many conversations turn around a large another absent... Apple. The mark Apple deigns not rub down people of Telecom, but the iPhone will be ubiquitous in the minds.

To a saturation of networks

Because the change is also there. In 2010, 54 of Europeans have a 3 G phone in their pocket, according to Booz & co. firm. This year, it should sell 244 million of "smartphones" in the world, 36 more than a year passed. In value, sales of "smartphones" will exceed even those conventional phones this year. With the exponential development of 3 G keys and "smartphones" mobile Internet connections explode and some networks, such as ATT in New York, are close to saturation. According to a study by Booz, 90 of the owners of iPhone in the United States regularly connect to the Internet, 71 use geolocation services, and 75 download applications. Therefore, OEMs such as Alcatel-Lucent and Ericsson hope that operators will recover to invest heavily to increase the capacity of their networks. And mobile manufacturers turn all to "smartphones". Nokia remains the first in terms of market share in the "smartphones". But the Finns, whose products remain less top of range, value, is behind Apple. The Nokia counter-attack is expected, even if the group does not remain idle. He has made free geolocation service late January and should present in a few months the new version of its operating system (OS) Symbian.

This modernization is highly anticipated, as well as Windows Mobile from Microsoft, which should be presented today by Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft. Indeed, the two bones are not very ergonomic as soon as it is to use on a phone with a touch screen. Android OS from Google, and that of the Apple iPhone are more efficient.

Manufacturers also charged on the market of mobile applications. Apple is clearly the leader in the field with more than 140,000 small software intended to entertain or improve everyday life, downloadable, against 30,000 for Android, 8,000 for the Ovi Store for Nokia and... 900 only for the Microsoft online store. In 2013, the market of applications should represent between 20 and 30 billion euros of turnover, according to the law firm Booz & co..