Mobile Operating System

Market Share

In 2006, Android, iOS, Windows Phone and Bada did not yet exist and just 64 million smartphones were sold. Today, nearly 10 times as many smartphones are sold and the top mobile operating systems marketed as "smartphones" by market share are Android, Symbian, Apple iOS, BlackBerry, MeeGo, Windows Phone and Bada. Note that these statistics only include operating systems marketed as "smartphones" (e.g., they don't include Nokia's S40 operating system, which according to Nokia's announcement on 25 January 2012, has sold over 1.5 billion S40 devices.).

Gartner: World-Wide Smartphone Sales (Thousands of Units)
Quarter	Windows Mobile	RIM	Symbian	iOS	Android	Bada	Windows Phone	Other	Total Smartphones	Total Phones
2012 Q4		7,333	2,569	43,457	144,720	2,684	6,186	713	207,662	472,076
2012 Q3		8,947	4,405	23,550	122,480	5,055	4,058	684	169,179	427,730
2012 Q2		7,991	9,072	28,935	98,529	4,209	4,087	863	153,686	419,008
2012 Q1		9,939	12,467	33,121	81,067	3,842	2,713	1,243	144,392	419,108
2011 Q4		13,185	17,458	35,456	75,906	3,111	2,759	1,167	149,042	476,555
2011 Q3		12,701	19,500	17,295	60,490	2,479	1,702	1,018	115,185	440,502
2011 Q2		12,652	23,853	19,629	46,776	2,056	1,724	1,051	107,740	428,661
2011 Q1	982	13,004	27,599	16,883	36,350	1,862	1,600	1,495	99,775	427,846
2010 Q4	3,419	14,762	32,642	16,011	30,801	2,027	0	1,488	101,150	452,037
2010 Q3	2,204	12,508	29,480	13,484	20,544	921		1,991	81,133	417,086
2010 Q2	3,059	11,629	25,387	8,743	10,653	577		2,011	62,058	367,987
2010 Q1	3,696	10,753	24,068	8,360	5,227			2,403	54,506	359,605
2009 Q4	4,203	10,508	23,857	8,676	4,043			2,517	53,804	347,103
2009 Q3	3,260	8,523	18,315	7,040	1,425			2,531	41,093	308,895
2009 Q2	3,830	7,782	20,881	5,325	756			2,398	40,972	286,122
2009 Q1	3,739	7,534	17,825	3,848	575			2,986	36,507	269,120
2008 Q4	4,714	7,443	17,949	4,079	0			3,958	38,143	314,708
2008 Q3	4,053	5,800	18,179	4,720	0			3,763	36,515	308,532
2008 Q2	3,874	5,594	18,405	893				3,456	32,221	304,722
2008 Q1	3,858	4,312	18,400	1,726				4,113	32,408	294,283
2007 Q4	4,374	4,025	22,903	1,928				3,536	36,766	330,055
2007 Q3	4,180	3,192	20,664	1,104				3,612	32,752	291,142
2007 Q2	3,212	2,471	18,273	270				3,628	27,855	272,604
2007 Q1	2,931	2,080	15,844					4,087	24,943	259,039

Gartner: World-Wide Smartphone Sales (% of Smartphones / % of All phones)
Quarter	Windows Mobile	RIM	Symbian	iOS	Android	Bada	Windows Phone	Other Smartphones	Total Smartphones
2012		5.1% / 2.0%	4.2% / 1.6%	19.1% / 7.4%	66.2% / 25.7%	2.3% / 0.9%	2.5% / 1.0%	0.5% / 0.2%	100.0% / 38.8%
2011	0.2% / 0.1%	10.9% / 2.9%	18.7% / 5.0%	18.9% / 5.0%	46.5% / 12.4%	2.0% / 0.5%	1.7% / 0.4%	1.0% / 0.3%	100.0% / 26.6%
2010	4.1% / 0.8%	16.6% / 3.1%	37.3% / 7.0%	15.6% / 2.9%	22.5% / 4.2%	1.2% / 0.2%	0.0% / 0.0%	2.6% / 0.5%	100.0% / 18.7%
2009	8.7% / 1.2%	19.9% / 2.8%	46.9% / 6.7%	14.4% / 2.1%	3.9% / 0.6%			6.1% / 0.9%	100.0% / 14.2%
2008	11.8% / 1.3%	16.6% / 1.9%	52.4% / 6.0%	8.2% / 0.9%	0.0% / 0.0%			11.0% / 1.3%	100.0% / 11.4%
2007	12.0% / 1.3%	9.6% / 1.0%	63.5% / 6.7%	2.7% / 0.3%				12.2% / 1.3%	100.0% / 10.6%

IDC: World-Wide Smartphone Shipments (Millions of Units)
Quarter	Android	iOS	Symbian	BlackBerry OS	Linux	Windows Phone	Other	Total
2012 Q3	136.0	26.9	4.1	7.7	2.8	3.6	0.0	181.1
2012 Q2	104.8	26.0	6.8	7.4	3.5	5.4	0.1	154.0
2012 Q1	89.9	35.1	10.4	9.7	3.5	3.3	0.4	152.3
2011 Q4	83.4	36.3	18.3	12.8	3.8	2.4	0.8	157.8
2011 Q3	67.7	16.3	17.3	11.3	3.9	1.4	0.1	118.1
2011 Q2	50.8	20.4	18.3	12.5	3.3	2.5	0.6	108.4
2011 Q1	36.7	18.6	26.4	13.8	3.2	2.6	0.3	101.6