IDC and Gartner award smartphone growth prizes to Apple and Google
By Thomas Ricker 
posted May 19th 2010 4:44AM
posted May 19th 2010 4:44AM
IDC's list of top 5 smartphone device makers (pictured after the break) has Nokia at the number one spot repeating its 39.3% share as it did in Q1 of 2009 while RIM is down slightly from 20.9% in 2009 to a 19.4% market share in 2010. Apple (up from 10.9% to 16.1%) more than doubled its device shipments in the last year as HTC (up from 4.3% to 4.8%) and Motorola (up from 3.4% to 4.2%) all managed to increase their shares on higher volumes.
Regarding smartphone OS market share, Android's global numbers echo its success in the US jumping from a 1.6% market share to 9.6% in just one year. Gartner claims that sales of Android-based phones increased 707% year-on-year to displace Windows Mobile in the top 5 for the first time. Apple's iPhone OS also saw growth from 10.5% in 1Q09 to 15.4% in 1Q10 as both RIM (down from 20.1% to 19.4%) and Symbian (down from 48.8% to 44.3%) dropped. See the OS numbers broken down into a no-nonsense table after the break.
I still heart you MS.....
sent from my Windows 7
"Apple's iPhone OS also saw growth from 10.5% in 1Q09 to 9.6% in 1Q10" huh? Did I just understand it wrong?
@annoynimous
you act like windows phone 7 isnt competitive
ill take windows phone 7 over any of these
@gargle ah.. it was corrected :)
@gargle oops, typo, fixed.
@account5
no, I'm actually holding on to my omnia winmo 6.5 tighter now.
@gargle
It's supposed to be 10.5% to 15.4%
@account5
"ill take windows phone 7 over any of these"
Just as an FYI - Windows Phone 7 isn't available yet. I'd recommend waiting until the actual devices arrive before making a judgment on how good/bad they are, particularly relative to whatever else is available at the time. Much like with movie trailers, the preview often looks much better than the real thing...
Is there an other manufacturer that uses Symbian as well? Or why is there a 2.5 million gap between the Nokia numbers and the Symbian numbers?
@SeeKo
Forget I asked. Found it. It's also on some LG, Panasonic, Motorola, Samsung and Sony Ericsson.
@Kelmon
Haha same goes for the EVO
@Kelmon What are you talking about...I rep the Kin.
Total social network supremacy.
@SeeKo
Also couple of brands working mainly in Japan use Symbian like Sharp(not S60 thought).
You fought in the Smartphone Wars?
I'm betting fanboys will still try to start a flamewar.
@n8equalsd
These are pretty easy results to interpret:
- Apple and Android (HTC + Motorola) both gained in market share
- Their growth came at the expense of RIM, "Linux" and Windows Mobile
- Nokia grew with the rest of the industry, kept constant market share
No major flamewar material. The current WinMo platform is approaching the end of the line. Smartphone business is consolidating marketshare in to a few platforms, so people are going with one of the big names (Apple, Android, RIM, Nokia) rather than a smaller platform ("Linux", whatever that means).
@KarlW
Nokia amazes me...They have so much marketshare that with new Symbian^3 and ^4 on the way, as well as possible Intel-based MeeGo devices, they will see even more growth...I can see Apple capping at 20%, when iPhone OS4 releases enterprise and corporate features...RIM at 20% as wel...with Android at 20%...Nokia STILL at 40%...
That is the future if WinPhone7 did not exist...WP7 disturbes the balance... :D
wtf where samsung is the second after nokia where is it here?
Samsung doesn't offer or sell a lot of smartphones. Like LG, the vast majority of their sales are dumbphones...
"Apple's iPhone OS also saw growth from 10.5% in 1Q09 to 9.6% in 1Q10"
Typo there. It "shrank" to 15.4%
@LordFarkward
So, when they refer to "Apple iPhone OS" numbers, do they include iPod Touches like Apple likes to do?
@steel
Nope, it's iPhones' only
@LordFarkward
10 to 15% is not shrinking.
@account5
yeah...
thats the joke...
engadget said that apple had grown from 10.5 to 9.6, so he made a tounge in cheek comment on how it actually shrank from 10.5 to 15.whatever%
man things arent funny when you have to explain it to incompetent fools :(
@account5
*wooooooooosh*
Android! , you are not very far behind Apple. A little faster man, you can get there very soon. C'Mon, a lil more speed
@nooruls143 Wow, cool, what's in there for you?
@nooruls143 note that this is worldwide sales
@Atkins That means more android users and more developers flocking to marketplace and that equals to better quality apps both free and paid
@BigToach That is why I am more interested because I don't live in US
@nooruls143
Actually, if you include the iPod Touch and iPad into the mix, in terms of volume of devices to develop apps for, Android is a long way behind Apple.
Still, it's good news for Android and its users.
@GmanC Sorry, take a look at the chinese "grey" market, and you'll see who will have the biggest volume of deployed devices soon.... it is a no brainer, soon you'll be buying a toaster with Android... possibly by the naming convention it will be the version 3.6 "Toast" Lol.... (and for the Android blenders it will be 3.5 "Shake" lol)
@nooruls143
But look at the individual company numbers. Apple is more than HTC and Motorola combine. Apple has 1 phone and its doing better than all the motorola and HTC smartphones put together. I want to see the numbers on a phone by phone basis and compare the iPhone up against the Droid, Nexus One, and so forth to really see who has the better phone.
@johnvillar
Deveopers aren't gonna be flocking to design apps for toasters and Kirfs now are they, so their % of the marketshare will be irrelevant.
@cherryboom
"What a dumb ass comment!"
Look who's talking, moron.
Flame war imminent? I think so
@AlienSix There's always a flame war imminent; even if the post is titled "Pie is delicious"
@AlienSix : Cool ! Good old iPhone vs Android fight !
Hey, wait, where is the good old MacOS vs Windows vs Linux fight ?
The times, they are a-changin'... or not !
@TheGM
It's so evident cake is better, and don't get me started about icing, a cake without icing is not a complete cake experience, even tough i agree it can sometimes make your stomach overheat.
You pie fanboys are all the same.
@TheGM Enough with your pro-Apple stance. We all know pie implies Apple and Apple implies evil.
@kitsune
Cake sucks. Pie is delicious!!!
@bphatness
Key Lime Pie, motherfuckers. If you like anything else you're wrong.
@kitsune
Pie? You mean Pi!
What are Linux OS's, since Symbian and Android aren't counted.
@TheGM Symbian is not based on Linux AFAIK.
@TheGM
Lin Mo?
basically we are talking [ Moto Droid + HTC hero ] in Q1, wait for Q 2 though : [Moto Droid + Droid Incredible + HTC desire + Evo 4G + Xperia X10 + many others.]. iPhone HD will be a winner too, so it is probably RIM which will loose out.
@dementedacademic RIM is releasing the pearl 3G this quater (at least in Canada) and that is probably going to be a hot item, so I wouldn't count them out just yet.
@dementedacademic And the Bold 9650 World Phone on CDMA and later on GSM will be a hot seller too thanks to BlackBerry 6. Some folks aren't impressed by either iPhone or Android. Especially the teens and the business savvy folks who prefer their iPod Touches for watching video anyway.
@Sevenmack
Dude, BB is hip nowadays, and will be so untill the masses find out you can ping on sammy's and nokia's as well. BB OS 6 is terrible. Just plain terrible.