Apple Takes 17% Smartphone Market Share
A new report out from Gartner indicates that Apple ranked third in worldwide smartphone sales in Q3 2009. The seven million iPhones sold by Apple in 3Q09 earned it a 17.1% share of the global smartphone market.
Meanwhile, Nokia’s share of the smartphone market reached an all time low in the 3Q09 at 39%, compared with 45% in 2Q09. This caused the Symbian OS to lose ground too, while RIM reached 20% share, its highest yet.
Worldwide Smartphone Sales to End Users in 3Q09
| Vendor | Sales (thousands of units) | Market Share (%) |
|---|---|---|
| Nokia | 16,156 | 39.3 |
| RIM | 8,552 | 20.8 |
| Apple | 7,040 | 17.1 |
| HTC | 2,659 | 6.5 |
| Samsung | 1,320 | 3.2 |
| Others | 5,368 | 13.1 |
| Total | 41,067 | 100 |
In the smartphone OS market, Symbian finished first with 44.6%, while RIM’s BlackBerry OS finished second with 20.8%, and the iPhone finished third with 17.1%. Android picked up momentum but with only a handful of Android devices available, its share remained modest at 3.5%. Sales of smartphones running the Window Mobile OS declined by 20% to 7.9% of the total smartphone OS market in the third quarter.
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November 14th, 2009 at 2:33 am