Smart Phone Sales up 30 % in Q4, 2009
February 10th, 2010 by Diana
Some interesting stats about smart phone sales…
Worldwide sales of smart phones grew 30 percent in the fourth quarter of 2009 to 53 million phones, according to researcher Strategy Analytics.
Nokia led market volumes, ahead of Research in Motion (RIM) and Apple, and shipped 20.8 million smart phones during the fourth quarter – up 38% from one year ago.
I also found an interesting chart from ComScore about U.S. smartphone platform share, or installed base — representing both existing devices and new sales during each period, not just new sales. (Source: businessinsider.com - please check out the comments there - really interesting discussion is going on there)
Sources:
c114.net
areamobile.de
February 18th, 2010 at 7:17 pm
[...] sold on a daily basis … meaning about 5.4 million handsets per quarter, or 21 million per year. Apple sold 8.7 million iPhones last quarter and 25 million in 2009. Seems like Android is gaining ground, hopefully internal fragmentation will be taken care of (if [...]
March 3rd, 2010 at 5:14 pm
[...] sold on a daily basis … meaning about 5.4 million handsets per quarter, or 21 million per year. Apple sold 8.7 million iPhones last quarter and 25 million in 2009. Seems like Android is gaining ground, hopefully internal fragmentation will be taken care of (if [...]