Shanghai shocker: Windows is losing smartphone market share in China

[Wireless News]

The newest.Kantar Worldpanel report from China shows Android grabbing 51.4% of urban China’s smartphone market share, up a few points from the previous quarter. iOS maintains the 19.9% share it had three months earlier, a sign of how lack of China Mobile distribution support is slowing Apple’s momentum. None of this is particularly surprising but what does come as a shocker is the fact that Windows Phone’s market share dropped to 3.6% in March from 4.3% in December. The reason this is surprising is that the highly anticipated Lumia 920T started shipping to China Mobile in January. China Mobile has subsidized the price of the 920T strongly and the model sold out repeatedly during February as new shipments arrived to

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