Battle of SmartPhones Blackberry, iPhone, Palm, Microsoft Windows Mobile . Is Google Android threat and Microsoft loosing race?

Mobile lifestyle is driven by smartphone. Operating System battle has shifted from laptop, desktop to smartphone. Battle for dominance is between:

- Apple iPhone

- RIM Blackberry

- Goodle Android

- Microsoft Windows Mobile

To compete in such a crowded market, manufacturers need to tightly integrate hardware, user interface, and cloud and social networking services if their solutions are to appeal to users.

Just adding a qwerty keyboard will not make a device fit the communication habits of today's various customer segments.

From the data below it looks Nokia is loosing dominance in mobile handset and operating system. Microsoft is not able to put strong inroad in crowded market. Looks Apple and RIM will dominate niche market whereas early to say Google Android will be mobile operating system similar to Windows operating system in desktop , laptop market .


Below are data related to mobile handset and operating system share:

	RIM		Apple	Microsoft		Palm	Google
Sept 2009	42.6 %		24.1 %	19 %		8.3 %	2.5 %
Oct 2009	41.3 %		24.8 %	19.7 %		7.8 %	2.8 %
Nov 2009	40.8 %		25.5 %	19.1 %		7.2 %	3.8 %
Dec 2009	41.6 %		25.3 %	18 %		5.2 %	6.1 %
Jan 2010	43.0 %		25.1 %	15.7 %		5.7 %	7.1 %
Feb 2010	42.1 %		25.4 %	15.1 %		5.4 %	9.0 %
May 2010	41.7 %		24.4 %	13.2 %		4.8 %	13.0 %
Mobile Handset	2010	2009		Operating System	2010		2009
Nokia	35.0 %	36.2 %		Symbian	44.3 %		48.8 %
Samsung	20.6 %	19.1 %		RIM	19.4 %		20.6 %
LG	8.6 %	9.9 %		iPhone OS	15.4 %		10.5 %
RIM (Blackberry)	3.4 %	2.7 %		Android	9.6 %		1.6 %
Sony Ericsson	3.1 %	5.4 %		Microsoft Mobile Windows	6.8 %		10.2 %
Motorola	3.0	6.2 %
Apple	2.7 %	1.5 %