
Android DOUBLED its North-American market share during Q4 2009

That’s the good news, with Mashable pointing out today that Google’s share of the smartphone market rose from 2.5% to 5.2% between September and December of 2009. Amazingly, despite all the mad global Apple hype, it’s BlackBerry-maker RIM that remains in the lead, taking an astonishing 41.6% of the smartphone market during the final quarter of 2009 – leaving Apple’s iPhone variants with 25.3% and Microsoft’s WinMo handset options on a respectable 18%. Here’s it all in a little graph. Sorry it’s only in black & white: Google Android – at the bottom, but growing the fastest. Better that than to be at the top and declining, right? More detailed data and analysis can be …










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directphoneshop (Directphoneshop UK) : Nokia X3 is one of the X series handsets announced by the mobile giant Nokia... Updated : 2010-03-10T15:47:15Z | Reply | View Tweet |
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jumpnjoey16 (Lord Fernandez) : Sony Ericsson in Philippines should learn from this. Top of the line handsets should be released early. Otherwise-people will ignore it... Updated : 2010-03-10T15:41:22Z | Reply | View Tweet |
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jumpnjoey16 (Lord Fernandez) : Sale of the Sony Ericsson top of the line handsets in the Philippines must be really slow - they bundled it DVD player with the X2... Updated : 2010-03-10T15:39:25Z | Reply | View Tweet |
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