Jul

2011

IMS Research Says Global Smartphones Sales Will Top 420 Million Devices in 2011

by Joe Sirianni
tagged global smartphone sales, growth, IMS, Innovation, market share, moible, research, shares, smartphone

According to IMS Research, a leading independent supplier of market research, sales of smartphones will come in at over 420 million device by the end of this year . This will account for roughly 28 percent of the handset market as the research shows. According to the company, with the release of more and more [...]

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Feb

2011

Android Sells 10 Times as Many Units in 2010 as in 2009

by Michael Murphy
tagged Gartner, growth, marketshare, sales

While it’s no secret that Android sales have been climbing, as shown yesterday, it’s truly impressive to see how quickly its numbers have grown. 2009 was the year people started to take notice of Android — and personally, the year I got my first Android phone. But, as shown in the chart above, Gartner reports [...]

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Jan

2011

Research shows Android will double competitors growth in 2011

by Jesse Bauer
tagged 2011, Android, Canalys, droid, estimates, Gingerbread, Google, growth, Honeycomb, HTC, Ice Cream, LG, market share, motorola, projections, sales, Samsung, sony ericsson

A new report by research firm Canalys, shows that Android OS will double its competitors such as iOS and BlackBerry OS over this new year in 2011. Also, despite many claims online about the large amount of activations Verizon’s iPhone is expected to make, this apparently will not affect Android’s growth when it launches next [...]

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Oct

2010

Android World Domination charted

by Jesse Bauer
tagged Android, charts, data, gigaom, graphs, growth, market share, smartphones

The folks at Gigaom have some pretty charts and graphs for us to be rather proud of. They represent market Share data from several areas including Worldwide smartphones, Operating System, Devices, geography, and the future of mobile device users by 2014.

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Aug

2010

Shipments of Android phones up 886%

by Dustin Karnes
tagged Android, apple, blackberry, Google, growth, iphone, market, rim, share

According to an analysis done by Canalys, which involved adding up the Q2 reports from smartphone carriers and manufacturers, the shipment of smartphones worldwide grew an amazing 64%. What’s better than that? How about the fact that Android shipments have risen by – I hope you’re sitting down – 886%. Come back to this article [...]

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Jul

2010

HTC reports $1.8 billion in Q2 revenue with 5.4 million units sold

by Chris Moor
tagged financial, growth, HTC, revenue

HTC has just released their Q2 financial report and things are looking good. Their Q2 revenue is up over 66% year-over-year to $1.8 billion. The fact that HTC has sold 5.4 million handsets in Q2, which is up from 2.4 million from the previous year. There’s some better news too, it looks like HTC is [...]

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Jul

2010

Android’s share of UK smartphone market growing exponentially

by Dustin Karnes
tagged Android, growth, market, sales, uk

Android. We all love it.. at least, if you’re reading this, I hope you do. And while I, as a stateside Yankee, adore Google’s OS, my friends over the lake do, too. Android share of the UK has grown from 3% in Q1 of 2010 to an astounding 13.2% in Q2. That’s over a 330% [...]

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Jun

2010

Android on pace to add 30 million+ devices by end of year

by Chris Moor
tagged 000, 160, 30, Android, growth, million

If you happened to miss our coverage of the Droid X event today, then you also missed a great Android stat. Andy Rubin, VP of Engineering for Google said today that there are 160,000 Android phones activated every day. That’s a heckuvalotta (yes that word is made up) Android devices finding new homes every day. [...]

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