Research firm Strategy Analytics reported on the overall sale of smartphones in the last quarter of 2010 compared to the same timeframe the year before. In the last 3 months of the year, 94 million smartphones were sold, which is a 75% increase over the last quarter of 2009. Sales of RIM and Apple devices were up slightly, but the main reason for the large increase was the sale of — you guessed it — Android devices. Between Samsung, Motorola, HTC, and LG, Android phones were counted in the “other” group, which accounted for 37% of all smartphone sales.
Not surprising that basically 1 in every 4 phones sold in the last quarter was a smartphone, and a large percentage of smartphone sold were Android. This is great for Android owners, and it draws in the development community, and gets us more, higher-quality apps on our favorite platform. And while Verizon’s iPhone launch may shake things up a bit, Android sales really seem to be in a very stable position. The upcoming year will be interesting to watch.
[via MobileBusinessBriefing[