Mobile Operating System - Market Share

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

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