Interestingly, IDC (International Data Corporation) predicts, Windows Phone 7 sales will eventually beat iPhones. However this is not going to happen until 2015.  The report predicts the existence of Symbyian platform will be almost nil and those users will be changed to Windows Phone 7.  Android will be the most popular OS even then. Moreover, the report suggests that, smartphone vendors will ship more than 450 million smartphones in 2011 compared to the 303.4 million units shipped in 2010. Also, the smartphone market will grow more than four times faster than the overall mobile phone market.

WP7 passed another milestone earlier this month – hitting 10,000 applications in the WP7 market place.  Microsoft only took four and a half months for that and it is faster than both Android and iOS. The alliance with Nokia seems to be good for both companies. Nokia was the leader in smartphones before the arrival of  iOS and Androids. After that, the company was criticized for its aging Symbian platform which is hardly touch optimized and lacks a good application store. The biggest plus point of Nokia is the premium build quality of their phones and the excellent imaging capabilities. Still, Nokia N8 with its 12 MP sensor is the king of all smartphone cameras.

Imagine a smartphone with the same 12 MP camera in N8 and Nokia’s Clear Black AMOLED display coupled with the unique and beautiful metro user interface of the Windows Phone 7 ! I would love to buy that phone.

Source: http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS22762811