Android trounces Symbian, iOS in Q2, study finds

Release Date ‎Aug 11, 2011‎ in CNET

 
   

Nokia could lose smartphone sales lead this quarter

Taipei Times - ‎Aug 12, 2011‎
Nokia Oyj, the world's biggest maker of mobile phones, will lose its position as the biggest seller of smartphones this quarter for the first time as handsets running Google Inc's Android become cheaper, Gartner Inc said. Nokia sold 20.9 percent of the ...

Mobile sales up 16.5 percent, Android surges ahead

ZDNet Asia - Tyler Thia - ‎Aug 12, 2011‎
Worldwide mobile device shipment clocks 428.7 million in second quarter 2011, led by Nokia, Samsung and LG. Android market share expands to 43.4 percent, bypassing Symbian which drops to 22.1 ...

Cellphone Market Share Shifting

New York Times (blog) - Damon Darlin - ‎Aug 11, 2011‎
Nokia is about to drop from its position as the leading cellphone maker in the world, according to the latest sales estimates made by the technology analysts at Gartner. Nokia was still No. 1 in the second quarter of the year, ...

Apple gains on mobile device king Nokia

USA Today (blog) - Scott Martin - ‎Aug 11, 2011‎
Nokia is holding court as No. 1 mobile device maker in the world, but its position is fast slipping as it looks to be soon dethroned. "Smartphone sales continued to rise at the expense of feature phones," said Roberta Cozza, ...

CORRECT: Gartner: Nokia Holds On To Smartphone Market Leadership In 2nd Quarter

Wall Street Journal - Sven Grundberg - ‎Aug 11, 2011‎
("CORRECT: Gartner: Nokia Holds On To Smartphone Market Leadership In 2nd Quarter," at 1626 GMT, should have referred to Nokia's total sales in units, not smartphones, in the second paragraph. The error also occurred in a story published at 0630 GMT. ...

Gartner: Smartphones boom, overall mobile sales drop

Computerworld - ‎Aug 11, 2011‎
By Mikael Ricknäs IDG News Service - Mobile phone sales floundered during the second quarter in the wake of the earthquake in Japan. But smartphone sales continued to grow, as Android extended its lead in the operating system race, according to market ...

Nokia Top Q2 Smartphone Vendor By Sell-Through, Says Gartner

Barron's (blog) - Tiernan Ray - ‎Aug 11, 2011‎
Research firm Gartner today reports that Nokia (NOK) held the top spot in sales to end users of smartphones in Q2, even though, as I wrote two weeks ago, the company lost the crown for sales into the channel. ...

Gartner: Apple's share of mobile market grew 91% in Q2

CNNMoney - Philip Elmer-DeWitt - ‎Aug 11, 2011‎
Apple's share of the worldwide mobile phone market (smart and not-so-smart) nearly doubled year over year in the second quarter of 2011, from 2.4% to 4.6%, according to a report issued Thursday by ...

Android trounces Symbian, iOS in Q2, study finds

CNET - Don Reisinger - ‎Aug 11, 2011‎
In just one short year, Android's growth has exploded, helping to catapult it to the top of the smartphone OS market, a new study from Gartner has found. According to the research firm, 46.8 million Android smartphones were sold to end users worldwide ...

Gartner says Nokia still rules the smartphone world

TamsS60 - ‎Aug 13, 2011‎
Gartner has published a press release wherein they state the latest results for the smartphone sales across the globe. Quite surprisingly, and as opposed to the market views, Nokia has emerged as the victor in smartphone sales worldwide. ...

Gartner reports Nokia leading mobile phone sales in 2Q11

Mobiletor.com - ‎Aug 13, 2011‎
According to a report by Gartner, contribution by Nokia has surpasses others in the mobile phone market share during the second quarter of this year. The Gartner data also reveals that second quarter of 2011 registered a 16.5 percent rise in the ...

Global Smartphone sales up 74% in second quarter

Digital Home - Hugh Thompson - ‎Aug 12, 2011‎
Over 107 million smartphones were sold in the second quarter of 2011, up 74% from 62 million in the same quarter a year earlier, according to a recent report by Gartner. Smartphone sales accounted for 25% of the 429 million mobile device sold worldwide ...

New data says Google and Apple are the smartphone superstars

Mobile bloom News - ‎Aug 12, 2011‎
Second quarter 2011 reports are in from the Gartner group. The rise of the droids has been completed and they now own the majority of market share. Even Apple and their iOS mobile operating system was not able to beat out the number of sales that ...

Android doubles share of world smartphone market in a year

Life of Android (blog) - Robert Leedham - ‎Aug 12, 2011‎
Android has jumped above Apple's iOS and Nokia's Symbian to become the world's most widely installed smartphone OS, new figures from research firm Gartner have declared. Appearing on 43.4 per cent of all new smartphones sold in the three months to 30 ...

Five Companies That Dropped The Ball This Week

CRN - ‎Aug 12, 2011‎
According to Gartner's Q2 mobile operating system market share report released this week, Android held the top spot with 43.4 percent, followed by Symbian with 22.1 percent, iOS with 18.2 percent and RIM with 11.7 percent. HP's WebOS didn't make the ...

74% Increase In Smartphone Sales Worldwide, Android Out Front

ITProPortal - ‎Aug 12, 2011‎
The world wide mobile devices market continued to grow in the second quarter, with Google Android maintaining its lead in the smartphone market. According to a report released by market research firm Gartner, mobile devices sold to end users reached ...

Smartphone sales grew 74% in 2Q 2011: Gartner

Computer Business Review - ‎Aug 12, 2011‎
Worldwide sales of smartphones were up 74% year-on-year in the second quarter of 2011, according to market research firm Gartner. Smartphone sales accounted for 25% of overall sales in the second quarter of 2011, up from 17% the previous year. ...

Smartphone sales rise again in Q2

MediaTel Newsline - Josh Banham - ‎Aug 12, 2011‎
Receive round-ups of news reports, research and analysis plus latest comment and opinion from across the UK media market. Research conducted by Gartner has shown smartphone sales continue to soar, with worldwide sales equating for 25% of the 438.7 ...

Nokia Wanes As Android Grabs 43.4% Market Share

eWEEK Europe UK - Clint Boulton - ‎Aug 12, 2011‎
Google and Nokia pulled a big reversal in smartphone market share for the second quarter. Google's Android mobile operating system was the leading smartphone supplier worldwide in the second quarter, with 43.4 percent market share, up from 17.2 percent ...

Gartner Q2 report: Nokia still top smartphone maker

GSMArena.com - ‎Aug 12, 2011‎
Gartner released their report on the mobile phone world in the second quarter and have something very interesting in their numbers - Nokia is sill number one in smartphones, rather than third as other analysts have stated. The difference comes from ...

Samsung narrows the gap with Nokia for mobile phone sales in Q2

Mobile Today - ‎Aug 12, 2011‎
Nokia remained the number one manufacturer. However, its 22.8% share of the market was down from 30.3% in Q2 2010 and was also lower than its 25.1% share in Q1 2011. Gartner observed that Nokia's sales into the channel in Q2 were low, partly due to a ...

PC era 'coming to a close'

ITWeb (blog) - ‎Aug 12, 2011‎
By Admire Moyo, ITWeb's portals writer. PCs are going the way of typewriters, vinyl records and vacuum tubes, one of the engineers who worked on the original machine has said, according to the BBC. The claim was made in a blog post commemorating 30 ...

Android doubles share of smartphone market

Marketing - Sarah Shearman - ‎Aug 12, 2011‎
Google's Android operating system has doubled its share of the smartphone market over the past year, according to research from Gartner. The operating system, which runs on devices from manufacturers including ...

Is selling mobiles to invest in smartphones becoming more popular?

Mazuma Mobile - ‎Aug 12, 2011‎
New figures suggest that many people could be selling mobiles in order to raise the cash to splash out on a smartphone. Gartner has released figures that show sales of smartphones are on the up, with a 74 per cent rise recorded in the second quarter of ...

Is a Shakeout Due for Smartphone OS Vendors?

EnterpriseMobileToday.com - Stuart J. Johnston - ‎Aug 11, 2011‎
As smartphone sales begin to overtake feature phones in popularity, the struggle among leading smartphone vendors appears to be moving rapidly towards a shakeout, according to new survey data. Sales of mobile devices in general in ...

Smartphone Wars: Nokia Still Worldwide Leader, Loses Nearly 50% Market Share

The Inquisitr - ‎Aug 11, 2011‎
Nokia managed to hold onto their “worldwide leader” status for the Smartphone market during Q2 2011 sales, however the company did watch their worldwide reach fall from 41% to 22% of the market. According to Gartner the company moved 23.9 million ...

Android Grabs 43.4% Smartphone Share as Nokia's Wanes: Gartner

eWeek - Clint Boulton - ‎Aug 11, 2011‎
Gartner said Google's Android platform ascended to take 43.4 percent of the market, more than doubling its share from this time last year. Nokia took No. 2 with 22.1 percent with Apple notching 18.1 percent. Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) and Nokia (NYSE:NOK) ...

Smartphone Sales 2Q 2011: Android is 'King', Nokia 'Queen', and Apple 'Prince'

Christian Post - Simon Saavedra, Christian Post - ‎Aug 11, 2011‎
In the second quarter of 2011, 428.7 million mobile devices were sold " 60 million more than last year " and roughly 25 percent of the total sales were smartphones, according to a report released by ...

Smartphone shipments rise 74% in second quarter

SmartCompany.com.au - Patrick Stafford - ‎Aug 11, 2011‎
Smartphone shipments rose by 74% in the second quarter from a year earlier, according to the latest figures from Gartner. The figures show the industry grew as a whole by 16.5% from the previous correspond period to 428.7 million units, ...

Apple, Google phone winners

Investor's Business Daily - ‎Aug 11, 2011‎
Apple's (AAPL) Q2 share of worldwide cell phone sales nearly doubled over last year to 4.6% from 2.4%, Gartner said, making it 4th overall behind Nokia (NOK) " which continues to shrink " Samsung and LG. Apple will soon roll out its latest model, ...

 

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