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Winners and Loser in the Smartphone Market: Q408
jkOnTheRun — ... The quarterly worldwide smartphone market share numbers are in from Gartner and, depending on who you’re rooting for, they aren’t pretty. Nokia’s trend of struggling continues while Apple, Research in Motion, HTC,  and Samsung continue to show gains. ...

Samsung, Apple, RIM whale on Nokia, steal smartphone share
Infinite Loop — ... Gartner's study, which covers worldwide smartphone stats for the last quarter of 2008, says that sales reached 38.1 million units, which is up just 3.7 percent from the year-ago quarter in 2007. For contrast, third quarter smartphones sales (preholiday) were ...

Apple Doubles Year-Over-Year Smartphone Global Market Share in Q4
iPodObserver — Apple Inc. more than doubled its share of the smartphone market in the 4th quarter of 2008, according to a new report from Gartner on smartphone sales to end users. The company owned 5.2% of the market in Q4 of 2007, but sales of the iPhone 3G pushed that to 10.7% in Q4 of 2008, mostly at the expense of world-wide market share leader Nokia. U.S. observers could be excused for not knowing that Nokia dominates the global market for smartphones, as their presence in the U.S. has been overshadowed by Research in Motion's (RIM) BlackBerry, Apple's iPhone, and more recently the ...

Will Nokia Dump Symbian for Android? Um, No.
Digital Daily — ... in the platform, establishing the Symbian Foundation and releasing the Symbian OS as a royalty-free open mobile platform. It seems unlikely that the company would jeopardize that effort by rolling out an Android touchscreen phone at its annual conference. Even more unlikely when you consider that Symbian is by far the world’s leading smartphone software platform. It might not have as much buzz as Android or Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone 3.0 or Palm’s (PALM) new webOS, but Symbian still claims 47 percent of the mobile OS market. ...

Ballmer: How Wrong Can One Man Be?
TheAppleBlog — ... Furthermore, according to Gartner, this is how worldwide Smartphone Sales by Operating System looked, first in 2007, the same year Ballmer dismissed the iPhone, and then again 12 months later. ...