Research firm Gartner has spelled out Android and Apple’s dominance in the global smartphone market, revealing the Q1 sales figures today.
Android moved to 36 percent share from 9.6 percent in the Q1 2010, with sales increasing to 36 million from 5 million year-over-year (YoY).
Symbian, the now defunct smartphone OS, fell from 44.2 percent share to 27.4 percent, even though sales increased to 27.6 million from 24.1 million. Symbian should eventually fall to 0 as Symbian has been left for dead by Nokia as they move on to Windows Phone 7.
Apple’s iOS saw 16.9 million sales and 16.8 percent share, up from 15.3 percent share and 8.4 million sales.
RIM, despite growth for its BlackBerry smartphones, saw market share collapse to 12.9 percent from 19.7 percent. Sales increased to 13 million from 10.75 million.
Microsoft saw a weak introduction for its Windows Phone 7 line and market share fell to 3.6 percent from 6.8 percent. Sales saw a minor fall, from 3.7 million to 3.66 million.
Other OS, like Bada, accounted for the rest of the sales.
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According to new data from research firm IHS, the Android Market saw revenue grow by 861.5 percent year-over-year (YoY) from 2009 to 2010, although the actual dollar figures are tiny compared to all the other major app stores.
Revenue grew from $11 million in 2009 to $102 million in 2010.
By comparison, the Apple App Store saw 131.9 percent growth YoY, jumping to $1.7 billion.
More surprisingly, the BlackBerry App World had revenue of $165 million, and the Nokia Ovi store saw revenue of $105 million, both larger than Android despite a much smaller selection of available apps.
Google says there are 300,000 Android phones activated daily.
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Samsung has said it will introduce a tablet this quarter running Google’s Android operating system, joining the stables of tech firms releasing tablets by the end of the year.
Nokia, LG, HP and RIM have confirmed, or unconfirmed tablets set for release by the end of the year, running either Android, WebOS or BlackBerry operating systems.
The market leader, the Apple iPad, sold an astonishing 3 million units in its first 90 days.
Samsung’s tablet will have a smaller 7-inch screen, but there are no other details available, not even what version of Android the device will ship with.
LG will launch its Android tablet in the Q4, RIM will release its BlackBerry tablet in the Q4, and Microsoft has said it hopes to release Windows 7 tablets in the Q4, as well.
