Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB’s Xperia captured 21 percent of Japan’s smartphone market in the six months ended September, cutting the share of Apple Inc.’s iPhone, MM Research Institute Ltd. said.
Devices running on Apple’s software accounted for 60 percent of all smartphone shipments in the nation during the period, down from 61 percent a year earlier, Tadayuki Shinozaki, an analyst at the Tokyo-based research, said by telephone today. Xperia, which runs Google Inc.’s Android software, went on sale in Japan on April 1.
Sharp Corp., which introduced its first Android model in June, had 6.3 percent of the shipments, the researcher said in a report today. Toshiba Corp. and handsets made by Taiwan’s HTC Corp., which run on Android and Microsoft Corp.’s Windows software, had the same share of 4.5 percent, it said.
Softbank Corp., Japan’s third-largest mobile-phone operator, is the exclusive provider of the iPhone in Japan. Xperia operates only on the network of NTT DoCoMo Inc., the country’s largest wireless carrier.
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