Samsung and Adidas team up to launch F110 fitness handset

F110 will be launched in UK next month. Now Adidas wont partner Samsung without a few fitness features such as heartbeat monitor and step counter. Other “Me Too” features include “Mp3/FM tuner”, “2 inch LCD TV”, ” 2 MP Camera”.

Samsung planning a ‘OVI’

mobile device makers are not happy with just one time interaction with the customer. They want more pocket share of customer post hardware purchase. So after ‘OVI’ from NOKIA, now Samsung has intentions to pursue internet based services model.

The new strategy would unite all of Samsung’s premium web-services under one roof and put more of that consumer-cash back into Samsung’s accounts. And, with handset manufacturers scrambling to keep the end-user “in-house” even after the customer has paid for the phone and is long-gone from the retail store, Samsung’s new web-services strategy makes sense.

Over the next couple years we’re going to see most big-name manufacturers start to offer Ovi-like web-services integrated into their revenue model

I am not too surprised by this announcement personally because I was expecting handset guys to come out with something like this or something else which would give then regular income from end customers. With the increased commoditization of handsets, dollars are drifting away from handset guys and I am sure they are a worried lot.

Nokia – THE Mobile Handset Monster

In 2007 global handset shipment were at a mind-boggling 1.15 billion handsets

In Q4 2007, the total shipment from the Finnish major increased to 133.5 million units, up 19.5 percent from 111.7 in Q3, giving NOKIA (I feel the name should be YES-KIYA, Kiya – ‘doing in Hindi’) a whopping 39.5% market share. The dominance of NOKIA can be gauged by the fact that NOKIA’s market share of 39.5% is close to the combined market share of 41.9% of the next 4 of Top 5 mobile handset players.

For the full 2007 year NOKIA sold 437 million units globally commanding a 38% market share, almost 3 times the closet competitor (SAMSUNG).

SAMSUNG

• Q4 sequential growth of 8.7% falling short of industry’s 15.4% growth rate
• Q4 market share down to 13.7% from 15.1% in Q3
• Q4 2007 shipments grew at 45.1% from 31.9 million in Q4 2006 (The highest among the top 5 players)
• For the year 2007, the total shipment 161.1 million units achieved market share of 14% from 11.9% percent in 2006. Kicked MOTO down to 3rd place from 2nd

MOTOROLA

Hello MOTO!!! Seems number of people saying Hello! Helllooo!! on Motorola phones are shrinking coninuously. Highlights of Q4 for MOTO :

• Q4 shipment at 40.9 million, up 9.9% from 37.2 million in Q3
• Q4 market share at 12.1 %, down from 12.7 % in Q3 2007 and 22.6% in Q4 2006
• For the entire year 2007 the total shipment at 159 million giving it a market share of 13.8%. It is down by a whopping 8% from 22% in 2006

SONY ERICSSON

• Q4 shipment at 30.8 million, up18.9% from 25.9 million in Q3. The onle player in the top 5 list apart from NOKIA registering a growth rate better than the industry rate.