{"id":354892,"date":"2010-02-23T15:17:46","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T20:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"tag:contentnext.com,2010-02-23:article\/419-iphone-overtakes-windows-mobile-but-smartphones-remain-a-small-minority"},"modified":"2010-02-23T15:17:46","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T20:17:46","slug":"iphone-overtakes-windows-mobile-but-smartphones-remain-a-small-minority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/354892","title":{"rendered":"iPhone Overtakes Windows Mobile, But Smartphones Remain A Small Minority"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Apple? (NSDQ: AAPL<\/a>) overtook Windows Mobile to take the third largest share of global smartphone OS shipments in 2009 – but the overall market is sluggish, according to research from Gartner<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Nokia? (NYSE: NOK<\/a>) is still the clear leader for handset shipments, but its share slipped 2.2 percent to 36.4 percent. In fact, all five of the top handset makers lost a combined 4.4 percent of their share to Apple and others,<\/strong> says Gartner.\n<\/p>\n

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Of smartphones, Gartner gives Apple 14.4 percent of the market, just behind RIM’s 14.9 percent. Along with the fall in Nokia’s hardware<\/i> share, so market share of its preferred Symbian OS, too, slipped 5.5 percent. Gartner gives Android 3.9 percent.<\/p>\n

2009 smartphone sales were 23.8 percent up from 2008<\/strong>, at 172.4 million. But they’re getting more and more<\/em> popular. Q409<\/em> smartphone sales were 41.1 percent <\/em> up from the same period in 2008.<\/p>\n

But smartphones continue to play a pretty tiny role in the overall mobile market<\/strong>. There were 1.211 billion mobile handsets sold in 2009, but smartphone sales were only 172.4 million of that.<\/p>\n

The popularity of feature phones and cheaper devices is also playing out. Samsung and LG (SEO: 066570), which specialise in both types of devices, were the only two of the top-five to gain ground in the last year. Worth noting that Samsung’s new operating system ‘bada’ is unlikely to have much of an impact here in the next year: Samsung says it will consider it a success if it gets near 10 million units in 2010<\/a> (versus 236 million units for Samsung in 2009).<\/p>\n

At their current rates, Motorola? (NYSE: MOT<\/a>) (4.8 percent, down from 8.7 percent) and Sony Ericsson (4.5, down from 7.6) look like they may not even make the top 5 in 2011. The “others” category meanwhile saw a healthy 4.4 percent jump, demonstrating the increasing amount of fragmentation in the market.<\/p>\n

It will be worth watching how Android plays out in the year ahead. There were fifty Android devices counted around last week’s Mobile World Congress by one journalist’s count<\/a>. But is it inevitable that will lead to an explosion in sales in the year ahead? Google’s Eric Schmidt says that more than 60,000 Android devices are currently being shipped a day, and that is just counting the phones out in the market already.\n<\/p>\n

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Apple? (NSDQ: AAPL) overtook Windows Mobile to take the third largest share of global smartphone OS shipments in 2009 – but the overall market is sluggish, according to research from Gartner. Nokia? (NYSE: NOK) is still the clear leader for handset shipments, but its share slipped 2.2 percent to 36.4 percent. In fact, all five […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1032,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1032"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}