Nokia retained the top spot in the global smartphone market, according to iSuppli, even gaining share in the Q2.
Android’s growing popularity was evident by gains seen by a few handset makers, especially HTC and Samsung.
Nokia took the top spot with a 39.7 percent share, showing 11.6 percent growth from the first quarter. RIM, the makers of the BlackBerry line, remained in second at 18.5 percent, seeing a slight decline in share despite shipping more devices.
Apple took a dive while remaining in third place at 13.9 percent. The iPhone maker dropped from 15.7 percent last quarter on slowing shipments.
Seeing massive growth thanks to Android sales, HTC shipments grew 63 percent and market share jumped to 8 percent. Samsung saw 55.6 percent growth in shipments, moving up to 4.5 percent market share.
Motorola continued its climb, moving to 4.5 percent on 12.5 percent growth.
Says Tina Teng, iSuppli’s senior wireless communications analyst: “From the spectacular growth of HTC and Samsung, to the steady advances of Motorola, Android is the secret sauce for smart phone growth for many companies in 2010.”
Result for: first quarter
According to the latest iSuppli figures, Dell has fought its way back into second place in global PC sales after losing the spot to Acer over nine months ago.
HP, despite losing share, remained on top, at 18.1 percent market share. Sales dipped 6.3 percent from the first quarter.
Dell sales fell as well, but Acer fell farther. Dell took 12.8 percent share for the quarter, with Acer falling to 12.4 percent.
Rounding out the top five were Lenovo and Toshiba. The China-based PC maker saw huge 18.6 percent growth from the first quarter moving up to 10.1 percent global share. Toshiba stagnated, falling slightly to 5.4 percent global share.
Dozens of other computer makers made up the remaining 41.2 percent, but all have less than 5 percent share.
Until the end of 2009, Dell was the perennial second-place spot holder, but Acer managed to erase a 6 point difference between 2008 and 2009.
Result for: first quarter
Sony Computer Entertainment America CEO Jack Tretton has made it abundantly clear this weekend that the PlayStation 4 is not coming any time soon.
Tretton says the PS3 is only “in the first 25% to 30% of this generation,” meaning there is at least 6 more years before a PS4 is sitting on retail shelves.
“I would say we’re sitting in the catbird seat,” Tretton added, via CVG. “We’ve just passed the third year of the PlayStation 3 and we’re just hitting our stride. And I don’t think anyone is saying, ‘This is a five-year cycle; what’s new on the horizon?’ I can’t even imagine what can be done technically beyond the PlayStation 3 in the near future. A question I often get is when we are going to see PlayStation 4. When somebody can craft the technology that exceeds what we’re able to do on the PS3, but we are still just starting to harness it.”
Although not related, Tretton also said he expected God of War III sales to “blot out the sun.”
