Huawei, the largest Chinese manufacturer of phones in China will make more phones that run the operating system from Microsoft. One of the questions asked after Microsoft bought Nokia’s mobile phone division is how the other hardware manufacturers who used until now Windows Phone OS would react to the news. Nokia already controls 80 percent of the mobile market running Windows, so theoretically, there is not too much room for others.
However, it seems that this doesn’t discourage Huawei. Richard Ren, head of Huawei’s consumer division in Europe said: “We will continue to develop devices running Windows Phone, and launch more products. We remain one of Microsoft’s strategic partners.”
Unfortunately, this is the only information on Chinese strategy. Huawei is mostly known as a manufacturer of Android-based phones, and one of its latest high-end devices, Huawei Ascend Mate, shows that the Chinese can make things interesting, however, given that Windows phones are also increasingly larger (Nokia 1520 phablet will be launched soon), Huawei might come up with other devices that will run Windows.
China is a big market for Windows Phone, mainly due to higher sales of Nokia 520 and Huawei can, at least theoretically, help spread the operating system from Microsoft among residents of the most populous country in the world.
According to mid-year data, the Android operating system developed by Google continues to dominate the smartphone market, with a market share of almost 80% in the second quarter, while Apple’s iOS remained in second place. Windows Phone OS has a strong growth, but is lagging well behind.
Windows Phone mobile platform developed by Microsoft had a market share of 3.7 percent in the second quarter, up from 3.1 percent 12 months ago, while shipments increased by 77,6 percent, from 4.9 to 8.7 million smartphones.
The main driver of Windows Phone growth was Nokia, which generated 80% of Microsoft mobile platform sales in the second quarter, according to IDC.
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