WASHINGTON: At the end of January, the market research firm IDC revealed that 1.4 billion smartphones have been shipped in 2015 (up 10.4% over 2014), with Microsoft nowhere to be found in the top five vendors list for 2015. But today, IDC released its latest Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker numbers and the market research company shared this about Windows Phone market share in 2015:
This past year was another challenging year for Windows Phone as shipments were down 18% in 2015 to 11.1 million units with roughly 95% of that volume coming from Microsoft (or Nokia) branded devices. The recent MWC conference in Barcelona showed a few new products from partner OEMs although it remains unclear how serious the Windows Phone offerings will be from OEMs.
These new data seems weird to us as in its last Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker from December 2, IDC forecasted 31.3M Windows phones shipments in 2015. We don’t know how IDC explains this 20.2M shipments difference.
