Smartphone Marketshare Picks up Steam
Here are some interesting stats for the smartphone market.
Smartphones account for 25% of the mobile phone market.
RIM owns 33% of the smartphone market
Nokia saw a 41% increase in sales
But Android saw a 886% increase in sales
I’m very bearish on Nokia, Microsoft, and Blackberry at the moment but hopefully RIM launches a successful new update on it’s OS for 6.0 (gigaom)
Given that the U.S. currently has the largest smartphone user base — Canalys estimates 14.7 million smartphones were purchased in the U.S. last quarter — it’s easy to overlook the current king of smartphone sales globally: Nokia. In the second quarter of 2010, the Finnish phone-maker sold 23.8 million handsets. Nokia saw a 41 percent growth rate over the prior year’s second quarter sales, which sounds positive, but when compared to Android’s 886 percent gain, Nokia’s growth pales in comparison. The overall smartphone market is growing, which is lifting sales of nearly all. But some — like Android — are clearly growing far faster than others.