Microsoft says that China has overtaken Apple's 1%

At the largest market in the world, in China, the share of smartphone operating system Windows Phone continues to grow, news reports Electronista.

 

Apparently, in the near future China will become a center of confrontation largest manufacturers of smartphones and mobile platforms. However, those of them who gave preference to Android, have nothing to fear - and so they are in the lead.

But Microsoft is very proud to be able to beat with its Windows Phone to Apple by 1%. At least that's what's chief operating officer, said the Chinese branch of Microsoft, Michel van der Bel. According to him, to date, Windows Phone takes about 7%, and iOS - about 6% of the market of "smart" phones Celestial.

"We just started," - said Michel van der Bel, adding that the combined efforts of the WP-smart phones and tablets running Windows 8 will be even more effective.

However, Microsoft would be better off not really hoping for a low cost Nokia smartphones based on Windows Phone, because there have been reports about the imminent beginning of the partnership Apple and China Mobile. The latter is the largest mobile operator in the world with a subscriber base of 655 million people.

Of course, the outcome of the negotiations will be known much later. Nevertheless, the struggle for China manufacturers of mobile devices is heating up.

[The head of Nokia] Multi-Core Processors in Smartphones - a waste of battery

The head of Nokia in an interview with Stephen Elop Chinese newspaper Yangcheng Evening News repeated his argument that the dual-and quad-core processors - a luxury for mobile devices. According to Elop, the use of multi-core chips in smart phones is a waste of battery.

The current flagship of Nokia -  Lumia 900 and  800 , running on Windows Phone, are based on processors with a clock frequency of 1.4 GHz, equipped with a single nucleus. CEO of the Finnish manufacturer was in favor of such a situation, saying that the phones do not need a multi-solutions.

"The so-called dual-and quad-core mobile phone waste battery use, they do not fully buyers" - said Elop.

"You do not need a quad-core mobile, at least until you want to warm their hands in their pockets," - he said earlier.

The words may well be Elop seen as an attempt to make a good face on a bad game. Operating system Windows Phone from Microsoft simply does not yet know how to work with two cores. However, according to studies, regular users in most cases prefer single-core multi-core smartphone. This is sure, and Apple, which in October last year introduced a dual-core iPhone 4S.

The thesis that the single-core smartphone running WP7 able to compete on speed with the iPhone and Android-devices was backed by Microsoft, which launched an aggressive advertising campaign for its mobile platform. According to Elop, phone 900 Lumia has never lost an iPhone or Android-smartphone performance, despite the presence in the last two-and quad-core processors.