Gartner: global market smartphones in the second quarter of 2008

The company Gartner summarized the development of the world market for smartphones in the second quarter of this year. It is estimated that total shipments of such devices has exceeded 32 million, which is 15.7% more than in the same period last year. The largest steel suppliers Nokia, RIM, HTC, Sharp and Fujitsu. In doing so, the market share of Nokia fell slightly for the year, but RIM and HTC - has grown significantly. Market share companies Sharp, in turn, became a half, and Fujitsu - has remained approximately the same as in the second quarter of last year.



Among the mobile operating system Symbian holds first place with 57% market share. Although its performance for the year declined. Platform RIM increased its share almost doubled, Windows Mobile remained the same rate as a year ago, and the spread of Linux and Palm OS decreased. Mobile version Mac OS X (used in the iPhone), in the whole world is not very large market share - a total of 2.8%. However, compared with 1% in the second quarter of 2007, growth indicators - is obvious