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Q2 numbers from Gartner have rolled in, folks, and Android’s looking stronger than it ever has. Of the 107 million smartphones that were sold worldwide in the previous quarter this year, a bit over 43% were Android with 46.7 million units pushed out of the door. This is an improvement over 17.2% in the same quarter just a year ago.
In contrast, Apple only sold 18.2% of smartphones in Q2 compared to a paltry 14% the same quarter a year ago. Most will likely attribute this to anticipating of a new iPhone being released soon.
As for others, Nokia only had a bit over 22% of sales, confirmation that they are quickly losing mind share and will need to do something fast to recover. RIM had a decent 11.7%, though they are facing rough times ahead.
Microsoft only had 1.6% of the pie last quarter, giving them around 1.7 million units sold. To put that into perspective, it took Android around 8 months to grab 1.8% of the Q2 market share in 2009. Windows Phone 7 has only had just under a year so far, so its trajectory of growth is right in line with what Android’s was. It’s worthy to note that Bada has sold a bit more than Microsoft has last quarter, something we would elect to snicker at if not out of respect for Samsung’s strategy.
We don’t know if Windows Phone 7 eventually blossom as Android did, but unless you consider the fact that Windows-based smartphones were prevalent long before Windows Phone 7, Microsoft shouldn’t have too much to worry about yet. Different circumstances tell the tale, though, so we can only wait and see if they’ll recapture the market they once had.
Last I read…Google was claiming 500K (or was it 600K) activations a day…Ice Cream Sandwich, Nexus 3, USA’s Galaxy 2, and cheapskates like me waiting for my 2 year Sprint Hero expiration to come around this Oct. before I jump in again….I’d say thing are still looking good to easily crush that number this year.
“Microsoft only had 1.6% of the pie last quarter, giving them around 1.7 million units sold. To put that into perspective, it took Android around 8 months to grab 1.8% of the Q2 market share in 2009. Windows Phone 7 has only had about 6 months so far, so its trajectory of growth is right in line with what Android’s was.”
Try again! This is Windows Phone 7 + Windows Mobile 6, Bada is kicking Microsoft’s a**! Also Android was sold on 1 handset, and it was damn buggy too. Windows Phone 7 is sold all over the world on many different handsets made by many different manufacturers, this is Microsoft’s nightmare.
Oh also Windows Phone 7 came out in October of last year, it has been on the market for 8.5 months, not 6! Where did you guys copy and paste this article from?
I highly doubt WinMo sales are a majority of their Q2 sales. Most carriers and retailers have yanked old WinMo phones in favor of promoting WP7. Gartner chose not to separate the two so I can only assume WP7 holds a vast majority of that. Remember, this is phones sold last quarter not overall market share. If it were the latter, your point would be valid.
Businesses buy WinMo phones and they don’t have to go to a carrier store
Wow, Bada is destroying WP7. 1.5 months until the 1yr anniversary of WP7. Re-up with Android.
android appears to be taking a bite out of Symbian and RIM and not really affecting Apple
The fact that Android is cannibalizing Symbian and RIM instead of iOS cannibalizing them directly affects Apple.
Look at Bada…I think if Nokia and Mango doesnt get them more sales in the next few years…its time for MS to just dump WP7 and make money off Android…
Maybe an MS, Android partnership? Might as well to cool Apple down with all these lawsuits…
Google will not sue Apple, I’m 90% sure of that… They are fighting to get rid of patents and they sue over patents? I don’t think so.
Apple still sold almost 20M of pretty much a single device though. I can’t wait for that one killer Android phone that sells more than the iPhone so that the Apple fanboys will finally shut up as they are currently holding for dear life on to that one single statistic.
That probably will never happen. There are so many choices for Android, it’s not likely that everyone will buy that one phone. If iOS was available on a bunch of different phones you wouldn’t see one phone putting up numbers like that either.