In Russia, WP-smartphones are becoming more popular iPhone

In Russia, smartphones based on Windows Phone will surpass sales of Apple's iPhone in the first quarter, said IDC analyst Simon Baker. It is predicted that, according to the results of the year, the Android OS will be the leader instead of Symbian, which will control about 43% of the market. The second position will be Symbian with an indicator of 23%, Windows Phone will occupy 14% of the mobile segment, and iOS - 9%.

For comparison: last year, Microsoft-based OS smartphones (including Windows Mobile) accounted for only 3% of the Russian market (8.67 million devices), which were dominated by models running Symbian (48%), Android (32%) and iPhone (8%). It is expected that in 2012 sales of “smart phones” in Russia will grow by 25-29%, writes the newspaper Vedomosti.

Officially selling WP-smartphones started in September. Since then, more than 250 thousand devices have been sold in Russia - as many as devices sold with different mobile versions of Windows for the entire 2011. Microsoft President in Russia Nikolai Pryanishnikov called this result "the success of a fundamentally new Microsoft platform."