Another smartphone data survey has arrived, this time by research firm Gartner – which shows Android and iPhone both enjoyed a storming 2009.
Upping its market share from 0.5% in 2008, the year it launched, Android OS phones racked up a 3.9% global market share figure when looking at total smartphone sales throughout all of 2009, while iPhone went from 8.2% in 2008 to 14.4% in 2009.
Here’s the raw sales data, comparing 2008 and 2009 smartphone market share. The figures represent thousands of units, so Symbian’s 80,000 figure represents 80 million handset sales:
So that’s 6.79 million Android phones sold during 2009. Symbian was the biggest loser, dropping over 5% of its market share in the course of 2009, with Microsoft’s Windows Mobile also showing a decline at the expense of rampaging iPhone, Android and RIM BlackBerry sales.
2010 is likely to show more of the same – and then some. Android sales and general awareness rocketed toward the end of 2009, thanks to Motorola’s aggressive push into Android and numerous other makers leaping onboard the Android phone bandwagon. 2010 will be immense for Android, no question.
Read the full research data over at Gartner’s press room.
It’s smooth to use, the 1080p display is sharp, clear and bright, the device is extremely light and thin and therefore very pocketable and portable — much more so than other 5-inch phones we’ve used. And yet… we’re a bit unimpressed by the overall package…
A relatively high-spec smartphone, with a 4.5″ display running at 480 x 854 resolution and powered by a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, plus the Ascend G510 arrives running Android 4.1.1 — albeit potentially hindered by Huawei only sticking 512MB of RAM inside it..
The Panasonic Eluga marks the company’s return to the European mobile phone scene years after several years of absence, and it’s come back to us with a moderately high-spec Android model that features a rather stylish, slim case.
Sony returns with an all-new mobile design for 2012, pairing a dual-core processor with a 720p display. It’s a lovely phone, but is it enough to end our Samsung and HTC obsession?
LG’s updated Prada phone comes with an absolutely crazy black & white theme, but is it just for fashionable suit wearers who want to make themselves look a bit more interesting?
Dan Houston
/ February 25, 2010WTF??
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