Comments on: Strategy Analytics: Android Phone Sales To Grow 900% In 2009

By: bart

bart — Thu, 14 May 2009 14:06:26 +0000

As far as I know there was 1mln Android phones sold in US.

http://www.mobitrends.com/2009/04/23/1-million-android-g1-sold-in-the-us/

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 13 May 2009 07:14:35 +0000

Best of both worlds, amen brother.
Lets get some sweet kits stateside pronto, my G1 wants some new buddies.

By: Scott Charles

Scott Charles — Tue, 12 May 2009 18:04:30 +0000

Rob: many thanks (particularly for providing the link to the actual SA press, which other sites forgot to do). I was figuring about 2 million phones (USA) by end of ‘09 based on the run rate (which I thought to be about 145K units per month as of April). So I could see 4+ million WW.

I also think smartphones are invigorating the mobile phone market (de-commodifying it) so compares can be tricky, because everybody will be trying to change the game by adding new features, apps, sales motions etc. But at the end of the day it’s about function, price and availability, and the revenue. I think Android is a good bet.

By: Dave Kaufman - Techlife

Dave Kaufman - Techlife — Tue, 12 May 2009 14:41:51 +0000

If Craig’s right on the math…I love the sound of 4.5 million phones, that means developers will really start taking notice of our platform!

By: Craig

Craig — Mon, 11 May 2009 23:42:49 +0000

Aren’t the 2009 figures it really easy to work out?
iPhone (2008, 11 Million + 79%) = 8.7 Million in 2009.
Android (2008, 0.5 Million + 900%) = 4.5 Million in 2009. …right?

By: Dave Kaufman - Techlife

Dave Kaufman - Techlife — Mon, 11 May 2009 17:03:29 +0000

Good point JamWheel. I think the comparison is valid though, as the iPhone is the leading smartphone in terms of month over month sales increase.

By your argument we should not compare Blackberries since they all run various versions of a different OS on their own hardware too.

I think Rob clearly indicates in his last paragraph the need for taking these numbers with a grain of salt.

One point that we all should remember. Apple and China Mobile, at last look were not working together. Android was probably going to be deployed at some point based on news from Phandriod (and others). If that happens this growth is likely a LOW estimate, as China Mobile has more users than the USA has in total population.

I welcome the China Mobile users and hope their devs get submitting multi-language apps. Imagine the growth in our Market app.

By: JamWheel

JamWheel — Mon, 11 May 2009 16:06:28 +0000

Why even bother comparing Android handsets shipped with iPhone?

Surely it is a false measure as Android will be shipping on multiple bits of hardware supplied by different vendors whereas iPhone is 1 phone, 1 bit of kit…

So, essentially we’re comparing O/S sales vs hardware sales?

Android is great and all, this just seems like a pointless activity.

By: Phonebricker

Phonebricker — Mon, 11 May 2009 15:00:48 +0000

Hehehe is that little Android guy taking Viagra or what! :)