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News: Gartner: iPhone smartphone market share doubles in Q1 2009
iLounge | All Things iPod, iPhone, iTunes and beyond —
According to the latest figures by market research firm Gartner, the iPhone saw its share of the smartphone market more than double year-over-year for the first quarter of 2009, as worldwide smartphone sales increased despite an overall decrease in worldwide mobile phone sales. Apple’s share jumped to 10.8% in the quarter, compared with its 5.3% share in the first quarter of 2008. Unit sales grew similarly, from 1.7 million units in Q1 2008 to 3.9 million in Q1 2009. Overall smartphone sales were roughly 36.4 million units, an increase of 12.7% from the 32.3 million units sold ...
Smartphones Selling Far Better Than Dumb Ones
Digital Daily —
... Global mobile handset sales fell at a record pace in the first quarter of 2009. And they’re likely to do so once again in the second. That’s the grim news today from Gartner which reports that first-quarter sales of handsets fell to 269 million units, down 14.5 percent from the fourth quarter of 2008 and 9.4 percent from a year earlier. “There were some signs of a recovery in markets such as North America and China, but overall sales in the first quarter of 2009 registered the biggest quarter-on-quarter contraction since Gartner began monitoring the market on a ...
iPhone Q1 Market Share Soars
Gearlog —
A new Gartner study reports that the iPhone's market share doubled from 5.3 percent in Q1 2008 to 10.8 percent in Q1 2009. That's amid a 12.7 percent gain in smartphone sales--to 36.4 million worldwide--and an overall drop of 8.6 percent for all cell phone sales during the same period. Research in Motion, makers of the BlackBerry, also saw tremendous gains, from 13.3 percent share in Q1 2008 to 19.9 percent in Q1 2009. ...
iPhone Overtakes Nokia in Smartphone Market Share
Cult of Mac —
... The market shift may have less to do with customer preferences for Apple’s hardware, however, as a recent smartphone industry analysis from Gartner notes; services and applications have become the primary drivers of smartphone success. ...
