Slides Blackberry, Samsung shines for Smartphone Users

Slides Blackberry, Samsung shines for Smartphone Users

Note Smartphone Samsung Galaxy in Canada in February to life. In January, gave 32 percent of Canadians surveyed by Ipsos she plans to buy a Samsung smartphone, compared to 21 percent a year earlier. (Samsung Electronics Inc. Canada / Canadian Press)

‘intentions to purchase a BlackBerry fell by almost a third over the same period last year, “said Mary Beth Barbour, senior vice-president of Ipsos Reid in a statement that publication be accompanied by an online survey of 46,000 Canadians .

The survey was conducted in January, the respondents asked about their preferences for branded smartphones, tablets and e-reader.

“The interest in Apple continues on a small hill, while the Android phones ready to the lion’s share of losses from RIM, thanks in no small part to Samsung are for the purpose of the purchases were up 50 percent over the past 12 – is still a period of twelve months’

BlackBerry

the largest brand in the Canadian smartphone (33 percent) or purchase plans (40 percent).. But that was significant in decreased compared to last year, when 41 percent of smartphone users and 58 a BlackBerry plan had to buy one. Thirty-two percent of respondents plan a company like Smartphone Samsung Galaxy Android phones to choose from more than 21 percent in January 2011.

According to Ipsos, was the estimated error rate of plus or minus 0.5 percentage points, 19 times out of 20 when the Results were not weighed, but the error might be a bit “different because weighting to ensure that the demographics of the respondents were similar to those of the Canadian population.

market share dives Apple Tablet

While the share of Apple in the smartphone market grew slightly, is thrown his share of the market for tablet-Canadians last year from 78 percent to 47 percent, as it has seen competitors like the BlackBerry playbook and a variety of tablets Android.

The e-reader market, Kobo is a big winner this year with 46 percent of the Canadian market. Last year he was only 27 percent or less the same percentage as the Sony eReader (28 percent), and Amazon Kindle (25 percent). However, the question of what e-reader, that they were planning to buy in the future, 53 percent of respondents in the survey in January 2012 said they had the Kindle in mind.

Based on the survey from January 2012 Ipsos estimates that 34 percent of Canadians own a smartphone, the tablet has a 10 percent and 10 percent have an e-reader.

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