Yes, that is indeed supposed to say 707 percent. According to the latest smartphone market share analysis compiled by Gartner, Android has indeed had a meteoric year, multiplying its share of the smartphone market in North America by a staggering SEVEN TIMES over the last 12 months.
This explosive growth helped phones running the Android OS account for 9.6% of all worldwide smartphone sales in Q1 of 2010, up from only 1.6% during the same quarter of 2009.
Here’s a very nice quote from Gartner’s latest sales report:
“This quarter saw RIM, a pure smartphone player, make its debut in the top five mobile devices manufacturers, and saw Apple increase its market share by 1.2 percentage points. Android’s momentum continued into the first quarter of 2010, particularly in North America, where sales of Android-based phones increased 707 per cent year-on-year“
And here’s the RAW DATA, showing global smartphone sales by OS during the first three months of 2010:
Unbelievable growth for Android there, but we don’t really need a nicely-formatted table to know that Google’s OS has had a stunning year. Link via PC World, and be sure to read the full report over at Gartner.
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?
James Foster
/ May 19, 2010Android is now really taking off. However, I want the following apps on Android
1. The Guardian (I actually sent an email to Jonathon Moore at the Guardian an email last night requesting this).
2. Bloomberg
3. Grandtheft Auto: Chinatown Wars (and the previous PSP GTA games as well)
4. High quality EA games optomised for Android 2.1. Niot rubbish Java ME stuff like Tiger Woods 2009 on Android.
The Iphone is getting alot of very high quality stuff.
Another thing Mozilla get your act together with Fennec. A pre-alpha is not good enough at this stage.
global
/ May 31, 2010come on to groovy global, nice articles