Windows Phone 7 To Beat iPhone By 2015? | A Stretch

Oh, analysts! You can somehow make the wackiest ideas ever sound somewhat reasonable. Never change! Like the latest projections from iSuppli, which claims that Windows Phone 7 market share will overtake iPhone in 2015.

This impressive assertion is based on Nokia’s partnership with Redmond and the positive reception to the Lumia 900 unveiled at CES this year. According to IHS iSuppli, it will be Nokia’s partnership that will drive Windows Phone sales up from less than 2 per cent last year to 16.7 per cent in 2015.

Android will understandably stretch its lead, jumping from 47.4 per cent last year to 58.1 per cent in 2015.

The Lumia 900 received some positive press at CES, but it still hasn’t been released, even in the US where it’s expected to sell well. Nor has it been extensively reviewed, which could expose some major flaw that could impact sales. Even if it doesn’t have a major flaw, Nokia handsets have traditionally struggled in the US market, where iSuppli is expecting the handset to succeed the most. So will Windows Phone overtake the iPhone in three years from now? Maybe. Short of inventing a real flux capacitor, we’ll only find out three years from now…

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