Gartner Trends Continue As Ios And Android Swallow Up Smartphone Industry

Gartner’s latest global smartphone numbers are out and if your name isn’t iOS or Android, the future looks pretty bleak.  While iOS continues to gain share at pace even without a new model release (up one point for the quarter and over 4 points year over year), the bigger story continues to be Android’s outright theft of marketshare from Symbian.  Just in the last quarter, 10 percent of the market shifted from Symbian to Android and for the year, the number is close to 20%

Meanwhile Blackberry continued its paced slide down another 2 points quarter over quarter while Samsung’s Bada made modest gains. In the “Other” category, Windows Phone 7 somehow lost market share falling from 2% to 1% and Windows Mobile is now off the charts.  HP’s webOS  is somewhere in the “other” as well with Meego and the ghosts of smartphone past.

Graph via PED, cross posted on 9to5Google.com

Apple, here, is also the biggest smartphone vendor in the world, outpacing Samsung (who is growing faster than Apple) and Nokia which is falling like a brick.

Rank . . Brand . . . . . . . Millions sold . . . . . . Market Share Q2 . . . . (market share Q1)

1 . . . . . Apple . . . . . . . 20.3 million . . . . . . . 19% . . . . . . . . . . . . . (18%) 2 . . . . . Samsung . . . . 17.8 million . . . . . . . 16% . . . . . . . . . . . . . (13%) 3 . . . . . Nokia . . . . . . . 16.7 million . . . . . . . 15% . . . . . . . . . . . . . (24%) 4 . . . . . RIM  . . . . . . .  13.3 million . . . . . . . 12% . . . . . . . . . . . . . (14%) 5 . . . . . HTC . . . . . . . . 12.2 million . . . . . . . 11% . . . . . . . . . . . . . (10%) 6 . . . . . LG . . . . . . . . . . 5.4 million . . . . . . . . 5% . . . . . . . . . . . . . (  5%) 7 . . . . . SonyEricsson . . 5.3 million . . . . . . . . 5% . . . . . . . . . . . . . (  5%) 8 . . . . . Motorola . . . . . . 4.4 million . . . . . . . . 4% . . . . . . . . . . . . . (  4%) 9 . . . . . Huawei . . . . . . . 4.0 million . . . . . . . . 4% . . . . . . . . . . . . . (  2%) 10 . . . . ZTE . . . . . . . . .  2.7 million . . . . . . . . 3% . . . . . . . . . . . . . (  2%)

Others 5.9 million 5% TOTAL 108.0 Million