Kantar: Windows Phone clawing back share thanks to Nokia, but Android still rules the roost

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It's seldom the case that we get to look at world smartphone [market share][3] on a national level, but Kantar WorldPanel has given a rare peek that might give [Windows Phone][4] fans some good news to crow about. Even though things [haven't always gone well][5] for the Microsoft camp, Nokia phones like the [Lumia 800][6] sparked a minor Renaissance in some countries in the three months leading up to mid-April: Windows Phone was up to between three and four percent in France, Italy, the UK and the US. The Metro interface must also be _sehr gut_ for Germans, which nearly doubled Windows Phone's local share to six percent in that short space of time.

Kantar is eager to point out that it's still mostly a tale of Android and iOS successes, though. Google took extra ground in Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the UK and the US, while Apple was on a tear both on its native soil and in the UK. HTC's [upbeat predictions][7] may have played a significant part in Android's continued rise -- the [One X][8] cracked the British top 10 list despite having only been in shops for a few days. About the only underdog story not going well in early spring was RIM's, where the BlackBerry's share of the US was cut to a third of its year-ago glory at three percent.

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