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2009 world handset sales ranked, iPhone OS eats WinMo

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23 February, 2010

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Technology researchers from Gartner have come up with their annual report on mobile phone sales, 2009 edition. And it's an interesting read.

In short, 2009 phones sales have remained flat despite the economic imbalances but there are some pretty interesting market share shifts.

Unless you've lived in a cave for the past twelve months, you won't be surprised to learn that Motorola and Sony Ericsson took the biggest hits this year, while Apple, Samsung, LG and RIM had one hell of a year.

Table 1
Worldwide Mobile Handset Sales to End Users in 2009 (thousands of units)

Company 2009 Sales2009 Market
Share (%)
2008 Sales

2008 Market
share (%)

Nokia 440,881.6 36.4 472,314.9 38.6
Samsung 235,772.0 19.5 199,324.3 16.3
LG 122,055.3 10.1 102,789.1 8.4
Motorola 58,475.2 4.8 106,522.4 8.7
Sony Ericsson 54,873.4 4.5 93,106.1 7.6
Others 299,179.2 24.7 248,196.1 20.3
Total 1,211,236.6 100.0 1,222,252.9 100.0
Source: Gartner (February 2010)



Nokia also took a dive, dropping two percent of total market share (and 5.5 percent of smartphone market) but their market leadership remains pretty safe. They shipped 440 million handsets - a volume that almost totals that of all other companies from the Top Five (470 million). Things are even more convincing in smartphone terms where Symbian accounts to 47 percent of all sales globally.

However Apple have managed to double their market share, shipping 25 million iPhones, compared to 11 million in the previous year. RIM also noted a healthy 48 percent increase pushing the number of sold handsets to 34 million.

Table 2
Worldwide Smartphone Sales to End Users by Operating System in 2009 (thousands of units)

Company 2009 Units 2009 Market
Share (%)
2008 Units 2008 Market
Share (%)
Symbian 80,878.6 46.9 72,933.5 52.4
Research In Motion 34,346.6 19.9 23,149.0 16.6
iPhone OS 24,889.8 14.4 11,417.5 8.2
Microsoft Windows Mobile 15,027.6 8.7 16,498.1 11.8
Linux 8,126.5 4.7 10,622.4 7.6

Android 6,798.4 3.9 640.5 0.5
WebOS 1,193.2 0.7 NA NA
Other OSs 1,112.4 0.6 4,026.9 2.9
Total 172,373.1 100.0 139,287.9 100.0
Source: Gartner (February 2010)



When it comes to smartphone platforms, the open-source Android has the biggest market share growth shipping on nearly 6.8 million devices in 2009. That's more than 10 times better than the 0.6 million in 2008. Another year like that and they might just take the second spot (or even first if Symbian doesn't up its game urgently).

An interesting trend is that the iPhone OS managed to reach a wider user base in 2009 than all the various versions and reincarnations of Windows Mobile. Now that should tell you something Microsoft, you better get your back into Windows Phone 7. We're waiting...

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  • Anonymous
  • M3s
  • 02 Mar 2010

Wow, In the State yeah the N900 maybe be more expensive than the iphone, but in the UK, THE UK!!! you can get the same price plan with the N900 the handset free on a 24month contract just like the i-phone, obviously if your getting the phone sim free...

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  • pJa
  • 02 Mar 2010

Funny I have gmail accounts set up and running on my BB 9700 and I do internet banking. Oh and if you want email details scroll up it's all there. Suggest you go away and have a proper look at what BB's can do before spreading false facts on her...

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  • Anonymous
  • pTx
  • 28 Feb 2010

Its Deep Space Bar again! Or Dweeb Spruce Bum as hes commonly known. Allways making up stuff! Apple makes more money on each iPhone sale than anybody else. You can find profit reports about it. Hell, I work in a phone shop, we get paid &pou...

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