Gartner: Android in the third quarter continued to dominate

Analyst firm Gartner issued a report on trends in the global smartphone market in the third quarter of this year. While the overall market as compared to the same period last year grew by 5.6%, the growth rate exceeded the proportion of the Android OS this indicator over the last year almost doubled. In just three months, Google has provided the marketing of 60 million devices with this operating system, which amounts to 650 000 activations per day. Percentage increase in the share is also impressive - 9.1 percentage points over the quarter. As a result, the share of Android-smartphone began to fall 52.2% of all units. Given that last year they accounted for only 25.3%. This increase is certainly Android at the expense of reducing the proportion of mobile OS's second place in the market. Symbian operating system demonstrated impressive regression. If in the third quarter of 2010, it accounted for 36.3% of all smartphones in 2011 in the same period is only 16.9% - more than double the fall. In 2010, the number of devices with Symbian was determined as 29.5 million shares, now only 19.5 million for the quarter. Furthermore, this operating system has lost not only a race Android, but closer to that of iOS, which is in third place. In 2010, the share of iPhone accounted for 16.6% of all smartphones, but this year only 15% - separation from Symbian reduced 10 fold, from about 20 percentage points to less than two. Apple has set for the quarter 17.3 million vehicles, compared with 13.5 million in 2010. The company Research in Motion, presented at the BlackBerry OS though the market and has demonstrated over the past year, a slight increase in supply of vehicles in piece dimension (from 12.5 to 12.7 million), but its market share fell from 15.4% to 11%. Repeat the success of Android with a doubling of quarterly results for the year managed operating system Bada. The share of this brainchild of Samsung in the third quarter of 2010 accounted for 1.1% of all smartphones, but in the same period in 2011 is 2.2%. More supply unit shipments grew on year - from 0.9 million units to 2.5 million. But Microsoft reiterates antiuspeh Symbian. The share of Windows Phone or Windows Mobile has fallen from 2.7% to 1.5%, while deliveries for the quarter totaled 1.7 million units versus 2.2 million in the third quarter of 2010. The share of other operating systems had 0.9% of total sales, or one million units. Last year, in the same period, shipments were nearly two million and a market share of 2.5% was determined. With regard to the distribution of device manufacturers, it looks like this. Samsung is gradually catching up with Nokia, which still occupies the first place, putting the third quarter of 105 million smartphones, which accounted for 23.9%. South Korean manufacturer has remained in second place with 78.6 million units and a market share of 17.8%. A year ago, Nokia shipped 117.5 million and was 28.2%, while Samsung 71,7 million and 17,2%. It is also worth noting that LG may soon give way to third place among manufacturers of smart phones by Apple, the growth of Chinese ZTE from 1.9% to 3.2% of the market and bypass RIM as to market share and volume of supply, lead by the NTS Motorola and Huawei Device, Sony Ericsson.