Mobile Web: Smart Phone Sales Up 24% From Last Year
The mobile phone industry is booming. Smart phone sales to end users grew 41% from Q4 of 2008 to Q4 of 2009. As a year to year comparison from 2008 to 2009, smart phone sales grew 24% to 172.4 million units.
The iPhone share almost doubled. The iPhone still trails behind Nokia’s Symbian-powered smartphones (#1).
Garner: source data
Worldwide Smartphone Sales to End Users by Operating System in 2009 (Thousands of Units)
| Company |
2009 Units |
2009
Market
Share (%) |
2008 Units |
2008
Market
Share (%) |
| Symbian |
80,878.6 |
46.9 |
72,933.5 |
52.4 |
| Research In Motion |
34,346.6 |
19.9 |
23,149.0 |
16.6 |
| iPhone OS |
24,889.8 |
14.4 |
11,417.5 |
8.2 |
| Microsoft Windows Mobile |
15,027.6 |
8.7 |
16,498.1 |
11.8 |
| Linux |
8,126.5 |
4.7 |
10,622.4 |
7.6 |
| Android |
6,798.4 |
3.9 |
640.5 |
0.5 |
| WebOS |
1,193.2 |
0.7 |
NA |
NA |
| Other OSs |
1,112.4 |
0.6 |
4,026.9 |
2.9 |
| Total |
172,373.1 |
100.0 |
139,287.9 |
100.0 |
Source: Gartner (February 2010)
