Gartner: Android Leads Smartphone OSs Worldwide in Q1’11, Could See Even Better Overall Growth This Year
Yep, it’s still number season, folks. Gartner’s back at it again with some smartphone sales figures from quarter one of 2011. Android, as you might have imagined, is rocking the charts leading every smartphone operating system in market share with 36%, an improvement over the 9.6% they held the same quarter just a year ago. They beat Symbian who is set to fall after Nokia dumped them for Microsoft and after other manufacturers have looked to Android for their future.
Gartner says Android is poised to see tremendous growth in 2011 as OEMs look to fight for that mid-tier smartphone range that Nokia and other Symbian users are giving up. Android is already doing great when it comes to mid-tier offerings and Symbian’s decline will surely accelerate that.
And that will contribute to Gartner’s original prediction of Android becoming the number one smartphone OS overall by 2016. Or was it 2015? 2014? Yea, it seems like the timeline gets shorter and shorter as the months move on. Take a look at the chart above for the full breakdown.