Google's Android mobiles overtake global iPhone sales

Financial Times - Tim Bradshaw - 12 Aug, 2010
The latest evidence of Google's rapid success in mobile comes from Gartner, the research group, which said Android's global share ...

Mobile Phones Unit Sales Grew 13.8% In Q2, Gartner Says

Barron's (blog) - Eric Savitz - 12 Aug, 2010
Worldwide mobile device sales rose 13.8% in Q2 from a year ago, according to new data from Gartner. Smart phones accounted for 19% of overall ...

Worldwide mobile sales up 13.8 percent in second quarter, Gartner says

USA Today - Nancy Blair - 12 Aug, 2010
People around the world are snapping up mobile gadgets at a good clip -- sales shot up 13.8 percent worldwide in the second quarter compared to a year ago, ...

Sales Soar For Google's Android Smartphone System

Wall Street Journal (blog) - Gustav Sandstrom - 12 Aug, 2010
As the global handset market continues to recover from the recent economic downturn, smartphones based on Google's open Android platform ...

Android Sold 118000 Phones a Day in Q2 2010

infoSync World - Sindre Lia - 12 Aug, 2010
A new report from Gartner reveals that Android sales exploded in Q2 2010. Check out the numbers compared to ...

Smartphone sales up 50%

Register - Bill Ray - 12 Aug, 2010
Smartphone sales rose by half over the last three months, according to market analysts Gartner, with the segment now ...

HTC hits top 10, Android surges

CNET - John Chan - 12 Aug, 2010
Taiwan-based manufacturer HTC has been growing its market share steadily for some time now, thanks to strong consumer interest in smartphones, ...

Gartner: Watch Android overtake Apple

Fortune - Philip Elmer-DeWitt - 12 Aug, 2010
The headlines pop out of the pie charts at right, drawn from data released by Gartner, Inc. Thursday. Nokia's (NOK) Symbian, Research in Motion's (RIMM) ...

Android sales trounce Apple's Iphone OS

Inquirer - Lawrence Latif - 12 Aug, 2010
THE SECOND QUARTER was a bumper three months for sales of mobile devices, according to Gartner. The crystal ball gazers said that ...

Android Big Winner as Smartphone Sales Increase 50 Percent

PC World - 12 Aug, 2010
As worldwide smartphone sales grew by 50 percent during the second quarter, Android was the big winner, as it became the third largest operating system and ...

Handset Sales Rise; Competition Hits Prices

Wall Street Journal - Gustav Sandstrom - 12 Aug, 2010
STOCKHOLM (Dow Jones)--Sales of mobile phones continued growing in the second quarter but tough competition pressured selling prices, research firm Gartner ...

Worldwide mobile device sales grew 13.8 % in Q2

Economic Times - 12 Aug, 2010
12 Aug 2010, 1430 hrs IST, PTI BANGALORE: Worldwide mobile device sales to end users totaled 325.6 million units in the second quarter of 2010, ...

Low prices drive second quarter phone sales up 14 pct: Gartner

Reuters Canada - 12 Aug, 2010
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Sales of mobile phones rose 13.8 percent to 326 million units in the second quarter but average selling prices fell by more than ...

Smartphone market share: RIM shrinks, Apple grows

Bizjournals.com - Jeff Bounds - 12 Aug, 2010
New numbers from market researcher Gartner show that Apple is picking up market share in the worldwide smartphone market, while rival Research in Motion is ...

Smartphones Represent 19% of Total Mobile Device Sales in Q2

Digital Media Wire - Mark Hefflinger - 12 Aug, 2010
Egham, UK - Worldwide mobile device sales totaled 325.6 million units in the second quarter, and smartphone sales represented 19% of this total, ...

Smartphone Sales Climb, Android Leads the March

IT Business Edge (blog) - Ainsley Jones - 12 Aug, 2010
By date: Today, Gartner released its numbers for worldwide handset sales for the second quarter of 2010. Smartphone sales rose more than 50 percent ...

Digital Life Android Rockets Past iPhone on Path To No. 2 Globally

CIO Today - Mark Long - 12 Aug, 2010
Smartphone sales worldwide jumped 50.5 percent in the second quarter, compared to a year ago. Android-based devices leaped past Apple's iPhone ...

Android OS overtakes Apple; smart phone sales explode

Salon - Christine Mathias - 12 Aug, 2010
New report details 50 percent increase in units sold in second quarter. Google-based phones now No. 1 is the US By Christine Mathias The Samsung Epic 4G ...

Gartner: Smartphones Nearly 20% Of All Phones Sold

MediaPost Publications - 12 Aug, 2010
Smartphone sales rose by a half over the last three months, according to market analysts Gartner. As a result, the Web-friendly devices now make up nearly ...

Droid Outsells iPhone: Why CIOs Should Care

CIO Insight - Tony Kontzer - 12 Aug, 2010
What does the legal battle between Salesforce.com and Microsoft really mean for the future of cloud computing? By Susan Nunziata Gartner ...

Gartner: Smartphone Sales Surging, Especially Android

Technologizer (blog) - Ed Oswald - 12 Aug, 2010
Research firm Gartner said Thursday that smartphone sales are up some 50 percent ...

Android Becomes No. 1 Mobile OS In US, No. 3 Worldwide

AHN | All Headline News - Windsor Genova - 12 Aug, 2010
Mountain View, CA, United States (AHN) - Google Inc.'s mobile operating system, Android, has overtaken iPhone's iOS as the number one smartphone platform in ...

Android Overtakes Apples in World-Wide Market Share According to Gartner

Phandroid.com - Kevin Krause - 12 Aug, 2010
The latest analytics report from Gartner is in, and their quarter two numbers once again bode positively for Google and ...

Nokia's Symbian OS Top in Q2 and Likely to Continue when N8 Deals Land

Best Mobile Contracts (blog) - 12 Aug, 2010
The total number of mobile phones sold globally reached 325.6 million units, an increase of almost 14% compared to Q2 in 2009. Out of these sales, ...

HTC reaches top 10 mobile brands thanks to Android

T3 - Luke Johnson - 12 Aug, 2010
Rising consumer interest in smartphones and increased popularity in the Android OS have seen the Taiwanese phone manufacturer HTC land in the top 10 of the ...

Shocker: US Android Sales Surpass BlackBerry

GigaOm (blog) - Kevin C. Tofel - 12 Aug, 2010
Google's mobile handset platform continues to gain market share around the world, with 17.2 percent ...

Android Helps Push Smartphone Shipments Up 50.5% in Second Quarter

DailyFinance - 12 Aug, 2010
Smartphone shipments and phones based on the Android operating system posted double-digit second-quarter gains despite a still-weak economy, according to a ...

Nokia/Symbian alliance remains No. 1, but lead shrinking

RCR Wireless - 12 Aug, 2010
Mobile device sales surged to 325.8 million units worldwide during the second quarter, a 13.8% year-over-year increase, according to a report from Gartner ...

Android Overtakes Apple In Smartphone Sales

ITProPortal - 12 Aug, 2010
Second quarter mobile phone sales are up 13.8 per cent to 325.6 million, a new study compiled by research firm Gartner has revealed. ...

Smartphones lead mobile sales, Android moves into no. 3 spot

Ars Technica - Jacqui Cheng - 12 Aug, 2010
Mobile handset sales continued their global growth last quarter thanks largely to the increased ...

 

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