Sales of Android - based smartphones may have pass those of Apple ’s iPhone in North America , but globally the iPhone is still onward of Android by more than 3 million units , according to market research caller Gartner .
In the smartphone OS war , Android and Apple were the winners in the first after part of 2010 , consort to Gartner . It was Apple ’s strongest poop yet , as sales to terminal - substance abuser increased by 112.2 pct to 8.3 million units .
Android ’s momentum continued into the first quarter of 2010 , particularly in North America , where sales grew 707 percentage equate to the same full point last year . sale of Android phones grew from 575,000 to 5.2 million units .
The understanding for Apple ’s 3 million unit lead is that the iPhone is more pop than Android - base gadget in Europe and Asia , accord to Carolina Milanesi , research frailty president at Gartner . In Europe , there were about twice as many iPhones sell as Android - based smartphones during the first quarter , she said .
Overall , smartphone gross sales to end users increase at the fastest charge per unit since 2006 , rise by 48.7 percentage to 54.3 million unit , Gartner say .
Symbian is still the largest smartphone platform by a wide margin , assist by sales of cheesy smartphones from Nokia , but the platform is not growing as fast as the competition . Sales totaled 24.1 million social unit , up from 17.8 million a year earlier , but Symbian ’s market place part slipped from 48.8 percent to 44.3 percentage .
enquiry In Motion ( RIM ) is in second position , but like Symbian its market share dropped , from 20.6 percent to 19.4 percent . However , sales event of 10.5 million social unit made RIM the fourth - big nomadic phone producer in the world .
Apple ’s iPhone atomic number 76 is still the third - largest smartphone political program , but Android has now impress passed Windows Mobile for the first time , taking the fourth spot . The Android and iPhone platforms grew their respective market share , iPhone atomic number 76 from 10.5 percentage to 15.4 pct and Android from 1.6 percent to 9.6 percent .
sale of smartphones based on Microsoft ’s Windows Mobile stayed at about 3.7 million unit of measurement , with market share miss from 10.2 percent to 6.8 percent . The arrival of phones running the Microsoft ’s novel peregrine operating organisation , Windows Phone 7 , could n’t occur soon enough for the company .
Overall , the sales agreement of mobile phones bounce back during the 4th quarter , totalling 314.7 million units and growing by 17 percent , according to Gartner .
