Worldwide mobile phone sales increased 17 percent in the first quarter of 2010 over the same period last year, and some of the biggest sales momentum came behind smartphones, especially those made by Research In Motion (NSDQ:RIMM) (RIM) and those running Google's Android OS.
That was the word from Gartner, which on Wednesday reported that RIM cracked the top five mobile device manufacturers by worldwide market share for the first time, and that momentum for Android -- and Apple -- has continued as well. Apple increased its worldwide market share by 1.2 percent from last quarter, according to Gartner, and sales of Android-based phones were up by 707 percent from the first quarter of 2009.
No comments:
Post a Comment