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Nokia Market Share Lowest In Years

Things are looking badly for the world's largest handset maker. Fresh off of rumors that Nokia would be selling off its handset division to Microsoft, new numbers from Gartner reveal that Nokia's current market share is the lowest its been since 1997.

Nokia's market share has dropped to 25% over the last couple of years. Between Q1 2010 and Q1 2011, Nokia's share fell 5.5 percentage points. Ironically, while Nokia's share was falling, worldwide mobile devices sales jumped 19% year-over-year. Google's Android grabs a 36%-size slice of the pie, while Apple doubled the number of iPhones it sold last year.

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