Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Smartphone market: Android in the lead, Microsoft cut off

Google's mobile operating system Android has been won in the period from November to January, the market leader. The Canadian manufacturer RIM therefore lost for the first time with his Blackberry phones the top spot.

This pattern is expected for some time - as the table below shows, were already in the 4th Quarter of 2010 primarily cell phones sold with Google's Android operating system. The Blackberry's market share fell accordingly by about five percentage points to end at 30.4 percent.


Apple's iPhone won easily and now stands at 24.7 percent, Microsoft's market share fell from 9.7 to 8 percent - despite the launch of new mobile phone operating system Windows 7 in October 2010. Palm remains in fifth place with 3.2 percent. Overall, in the three months in the U.S. sold around eight million smartphones.

Most U.S. phones are currently therefore by Samsung with a share of almost a quarter. Both are considered smartphones and ordinary mobile phones. The South Koreans lead to the U.S. market in front of their countrymen, the company LG, followed by Motorola, RIM and Apple. Nokia plays in the U.S. market, a much smaller role than in other parts of the world, such as Europe.

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