iPhone eagerly awaited by handset manufacturers (India)
The iPhone which is expected to be launched in September in India is eagerly awaited by the mobile handset manufacturing companies. The big three manufacturers, Nokia, Motorola and Sony Ericsson have already launched a bagfull of products that include music phones and touch screen products to face the iPhone.
According to the experts, Nokia will still be the market leader with a 40% market share globally. Nokia has its N and E series of converged mobile devices to take on this challenge. This time around the Apple threat is more pronounced as the new iPhone is 3G and is being marketed in Asia as well as Europe.
According to a Nokia spokesperson, The iPhone is an interesting device and it is great to see other companies share our vision of connected multimedia devices. We strongly believe that traditional single-purpose, non-connected devices such as MP3 players and cameras will be marginalised and overtaken by converged multimedia devices in the futureâ€.
