The Android platform tops the list in sales of smartphone operating systems for the first quarter of 2011, according to a report by market researcher Gartner. Total smartphone sales accounted for 23.6 percent of global handset units overall, and various phones sporting Google's Android OS took 36 percent of that market. They sold more than 36.3 million units in the quarter.
Android sailed past Windows Mobile for the first time in the first quarter of 2010, joining Apple's iPhone OS as one of the only two top mobile operating systems to increase its market share year-on-year.
Android has overtaken Windows Mobile and Linux for fourth place in smartphone OS market share with 9.6 percent, says Gartner. The worldwide study of first quarter smartphone sales showed a 707 per cent year-on-year increase in Android sales in North America, while the total smartphone market saw its largest year-on-year increase since 2006, says the research firm....
Global smartphone sales will rise 57.7 percent in 2011 year-over-year, with the boom continuing through 2015, bolstered, more than harmed, by tablet sales, says Gartner. This year, Android will take the lead in smartphone sales with 38.5 percent, and represent 48.8 percent in 2015, followed by second-place Microsoft Windows Phone, which will soar to 19.5 percent, projects the research firm....
Written by: Stuart Corner | Published in: MarketThe latest worldwide mobile phone market share data from Gartner shows an increase in smartphone sales of 42.7 percent to account for 36.7 percent of mobile phone sales in the three months to 30 June, with Android accounting for most of the growth
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IDC reported that 104.8 million Android-based smartphones shipped worldwide during the second quarter, representing a 106.5 percent gain over the 50.8 million handsets that launched in the same period last year. Android nabbed 68.1 percent of the smartphone market last quarter.
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Sales of Android phones led Apple iOS, RIM's BlackBerry and others in the U.S. in the third quarter, shipping on about 44 percent of new smartphones, according to research from Canalys and the NPD Group. Worldwide, some 20 million Android phones were sold in the third quarter, representing a quarter of the market, says Canalys....
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: MarketThe ordinary, not-so-smart mobile phone continues to lose ground against the ever-so-smart smartphones, with all mobiles sales worldwide declining slightly but smartphone sales up by 42.7 percent, representing around 36 percent of the total mobile phone market.
Digital metrics firm comScore today released its most recent mobile market share report, detailing trends in the mobile industry for the three month period ending in September. The survey of over 30,000 mobile subscribers in the U.S.
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