Gartner’s global phone sales rankings match IDC’s, but say the big guys have less of the pie
At a 30,000-foot level, the global mobile phone sales numbers for the third quarter of 2010 just released by Gartner match up with what IDC posted a few days ago, but you might say the devil's in the details. These guys have all of the top five players -- Nokia, Samsung, LG, Apple, and RIM -- at noticeably lower total market shares than IDC did, suggesting that second-tier players like Sony Ericsson, Motorola, and HTC (if you can really call them "second-tier") are grabbing more hearts and minds.
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone Tags: engadget, gartner, global phone sales, globalmobilephonesales, htc, level, minds, Mobile Phone, mobilephone, motorola, phone, players, rankings, result
Nokia sells just 100,000 N900s after first five months: so? (updated: more like 5 weeks)
Look, the N900 might be sitting at the top of Nokia's handset pyramid in terms of capabilities, but as we've said all along , the N900 is not a mass-market device. Nokia's been very clear that the N900 was launched as a means to strengthen its Maemo development community (on the path to MeeGo we now know)
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, nexus one Tags: apple, detailed, gartner, mass, months, months-as-proof, n900, nexus one, nokia, normally-give, numbers
IDC and Gartner award smartphone growth prizes to Apple and Google
Get ready to rumble, the latest Gartner and IDC smartphone numbers are out to give us a pretty good idea of how things shape up globally. Remember, IDC measures vendor shipments while Gartner measures actual handset sales to end users
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: after-the-break, apple, estimates, gartner, handset, idc, measures-actual, result, rumble, sales, shipments-while, windows, worldwide
Gartner: Apple, Android, and RIM winners in 2009 smartphone growth, Nokia and Symbian still dominate
Gartner just released its annual numbers for worldwide mobile phone sales to end users in the year known as two thousand nine. Looking at smartphone OS market share alone, Gartner shows the iPhone OS, Android, and RIM making the biggest gains (up 6.2%, 3.4%, and 3.3% from 2008, respectively) at the expense of Windows Mobile (down 3.1%) and Symbian (down 5.5%).
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: apple, BlackBerry, engadget, expense, gartner, handsets, iphone, nokia, phone, result, sales, samsung, smartphone, worldwide
Gartner forecasts phones overtaking PCs as most common web browsing device by 2013
Predictions about phones overtaking PCs at one task or another are hardly anything new, but research firm Gartner has gotten a bit more specific than most with its latest forecast -- which, among other things, foretells of a day when cellphones will be the most common device used for browsing the web. That momentous event will supposedly happen by 2013, when Gartner expects the number of browser-equipped phones to exceed 1.83 billion, compared to 1.78 billion old fashioned computers in use. According to Gartner, however, while browser-equipped phones will outnumber PCs by then, they won't actually be most folks' primary browsing device until sometime in 2015.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: browsing, entry, event, forecast, fri, gartner, internet, momentous, personal, research, result, web-browser, webbrowsing
Grey market devices boost declining 2009 mobile phone sales | Betanews
The success of white label and counterfeit handsets hurts all mobile manufacturers, but global leader Nokia more.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: beta, business, downloads, gartner, mobile, Mobile Phone, news, print-article, says-isuppli, security
ARM opens Android Developer Center – Bright Side Of News*
Recently, we spoke with James Bruce, ARM's Mobile Solutions Segment Manager, about their android developers center. The Solution Center for Android is a resource for designers and developers of ARM technology-based products running on ...
Categories: Android, htc, Other Tags: acer-liquid, apple, gartner, htc, james-bruce, kevin-smith, mentor-graphics, mistral, motorola-droid, samsung-i8910, solution-center, thundersoft, viosoft, windows-mobile
Mobile phone sales return to growth | Mobile Entertainment News
Gartner says destocking and grey market sales put market up 0.1 per cent in Q3.
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: advertising, BlackBerry, christmas, events, games, gartner, htc, iphone, mobile, Mobile Phone, music, news, nokia, online, samsung
Google Android Wins the Market by 2012 | High Tech Lounge
Although at this moment Android is outranked by just about every other OS, Gartner Inc. released a forecast that predicts the Android OS will be the #2.
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, Other Tags: accessories, BlackBerry, digital-cameras, gadgets, gaming, gartner, google-android, internet, iphone, market, news, partly-unveiled, power, wins-the-market, wireless
Analyst: Growth Ahead in Smart Phone Market for Google Android …
People briefed on the companies' plans tell The Wall Street Journal that the device is similar to the one the PC marker has been showing off in China and is scheduled to hit the market sometime in early 2010. PREVIOUSLY: ...
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, htc, Other, Phone Street Tags: apple, dell, dellephone, digital, gartner, goog, handset, htc, innovation, iphone, john-paczkowski, mediamemo, mobile, Smart Phone, the-mossberg-solution