The sales of mobile phones stagnated last year, as a result of the recession. But smartphones were the exception. According to figures by Gartner, 24% more smartphones were sold in 2009 compared to the year before. Nokia, Blackberry and Apple together sold about 172 million smartphones.
Also important changes as to the operating system of mobile devices. Even though half of the smartphones still use Nokia’s Symbian, it is clearly losing ground. Microsoft Windows Mobile is also on the losing side, being pushed out of the top 3 by iPhone OS. In 2009, iPhone doubled its amount of units sold from 11,8 to 24 million.
Big runner-up is Android. The 6,8 million units sold in 2009 were 10 times as much as the year before. According to Google’s Eric Schmidt, there are about 60.000 Google Android phones sold every day now. At that rate there’ll be more Android phones than iPhones by 2011.
(source: Emerce)
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