Ladies and gentlemen, the figures are in from Gartner and Android is looking good. The numbers list a little over 107 million smartphones sold with Android being at 43.4% of those sales. Take note that these figures are the number of devices actually sold to end users. Reflecting on our very own Andrew Greenfield’s article, I too want to see Apple once again fade away into the sunset. Go ahead and boast about being the worlds largest smartphone manufacture, Apple. Keep it up Google!
Out of this list I’m sad to see Nokia dying off slowly as they were the company to first open my eyes to the smartphone world. I’d love to see them make a comeback with Android loaded phones. I highly doubt that will happen, but one can dream.
Microsoft hits 1.6% with their Windows Phone 7 being on the market less than a year. While this is closely trending what Android had done, it doesn’t paint a clear picture for their future. Motorola’s mobile devices have always disappointed me. I gave them an honest shot with the Motorola Q, but that device was quickly returned. Working daily with Motorola’s MC-70 handheld computer probably helped put that bad taste in my mouth as well which is loaded with the Windows Mobile platform.
Perhaps the tables will turn when Apple comes out with a device that deposits money to your savings account each time you make a call. Maybe Nokia can recapture fan boys who searched for the 8110 that was seen in the first Matrix movie (yeah, I wanted one bad).
This continuing upward trend for Android makes me happy I stuck with an operating system that did need some help at first, but I knew it would get there. Its growing popularity will likely bring more people to pay attention, and with that, awesome gadgets to get our hands on.
[via gartner]