http://www.radiofreemobile.com/nokia-usa-broken-curse/
The curse of the US market looks to have been broken. Figures for the US smartphone market show that Nokia looks to have finally broken the market share curse that has plagued it since the days of TDMA. Figures from Counterpoint (see here http://www.counterpointresearch.com/nokia-becomes-the-fourth-largest-smartphone-brand-in-usa-in-q3-2013) show that Nokia’s market share has increased massively both YoY and QoQ. Nokia now stands at 4.1% US smartphone market share compared to 1.4% in Q2 13 and 0.7% in Q3 12. The losers have been Motorola, LG and BlackBerry. Nokia has released a lot of models into the US market but I suspect that this is not the reason for the gains. Quite simply the Lumia 520 ($175 unsubsidised) offers fantastic value for money and undercuts its competitors (with the same specification) by at least 20%.
