Windows Phone Predicted to Displace iPhone

Thanks mainly to the new Lumia 900 and Nokia, Windows Phone could represent nearly 17 percent of the smartphones shipped in 2015, edging out Apple's iPhone for the second-place ranking behind Android smartphones.

That's the view of analysts at IHS (formerly iSuppli) who are well aware that Windows Phone made up only 1.9 percent of the market for all of 2011, with Apple's iOS at 18 percent and Android smartphones by all makers at 47.4 percent. (Note: Apple's iPhone share surged to 44 percent in the fourth quarter, according to Nielsen and others.)

IHS said Thursday that Windows Phone will reach 16.7 percent of market share in 2015, behind first-ranked Android at 58.1 percent and just slightly ahead of iOS at 16.6 percent. IHS said the introduction of the Lumia 900 running Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) at CES last week showed Microsoft's and Nokia's promise in smartphones. The Lumia 900 will be the first Nokia device to run over fast 4G LTE and will be sold by AT&T in the U.S. in the coming weeks. Pricing has not been announced.

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