In the first quarter of 2011, 428 million mobile communication devices were sold, said market research firm Gartner, Inc. in a May 19 report on the global mobile phone market, an increase of 19 percent from Q1 2010.
Led by ferocious consumer demand, smartphones continued to outpace the rest of the mobile phone market. "Smartphones accounted for 23.6 percent of overall sales in the first quarter of 2011, an increase of 85 percent year-on-year," said Roberta Cozza, principal research analyst at Gartner.
"This share could have been even higher, but manufacturers announced a number of high-profile devices during the first quarter of 2011 that would not ship until the second quarter of 2011. We believe some consumers delayed their purchases to wait for these models."
The sale of mid-tier smartphones - devices which offer smartphone-like features such as apps, touch screens and internet connectivity at competitive prices - will drive smartphones into mass adoption and boost the overall smartphone sales in the years to come, said Gartner.
Apple, Samsung and HTC rule the smartphone world. The forward-thinking manufacturers reported the strongest results. Samsung experienced its best first quarter ever thanks to its high-end Galaxy smartphone line, and Apple more than doubled its iPhone sales year-on-year.
Google’s Android OS was the number one smartphone operating system around the globe with 36.0 percent of the market. Nokia’s Symbian platform slipped from 44 percent of the market in 1Q2010 to just 27 percent in 1Q2011.
Apple's iOS grew slightly year over year capturing 16.8 percent of the market, Research In Motion held 12.9 percent of the market in 2011, losing just under seven percent of its market share over the year, and Microsoft's market share dropped to just 3.6 percent in 2011 from 6.8 percent in 2011.
19.05.2011 - The Independent
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