[After Nokia, Microsoft is eyeing the Blackberry] - Xpert Mobile

With ambitious look at the mobile market, Microsoft studying acquisition of Canadian company

This week many people were surprised with the news that Microsoft acquired Nokia’s mobile unit for U.S. $ 7.2 billion, along with some patents company, a fact that made the actions of the Finnish increase by up to 45% at the height of the drive and closed with a 31% increase from U.S. $ 3.90 to U.S. $ 5.12 per share, leaving investors of Nokia very happy.

According to some sites economy, the transaction between the companies was already planned and it was no surprise, the fact that makes us even join the dots, thinking, “ah must have been why Nokia chose Windows and not Android as its platform. “

Well, actually it does not matter, since the deal has already been done and the dream of some users see a Nokia with Android seems to have gone awry. But this time begin to emerge rumors that Microsoft still will not settle down and is eyeing another big phone company, the BlackBerry (RIM old).

According to Bloomberg, take control of Nokia may not be enough for Microsoft to achieve their goals of growing in the mobile sector, as Windows Phone has only 3.7% of the smartphone market before 79% of Android devices. Microsoft needs more and since the BlackBerry is hunting a buyer with a certain urgency, it appears that the Redmond company will do a little shopping in Canada and, of course, BlackBerry’s shareholders should sleep a little less worried tonight.

Just to understand the subject better, the BlackBerry (RIM) held long first place in sales of smartphones in the world, until Apple came in 2007 with the iPhone and began gradually eroding the customer base of the Canadian company. After that Google began to pour their Android devices in the market, which caused the BlackBerry to lose even more customers coming into a major financial crisis.

Today BlackBerry is in fourth place and has only one , 1% share of the smartphone market, getting down to Windows Phone, which has been completely overhauled in version 7.0 and no longer be called Windows Mobile, a name that lasted until version 6.5 of the mobile operating system from Microsoft.

Source: Phone Arena