Nov 9, 2008
Smartphone Shipments Up and Apple overtakes Blackberry
A report from Canalys on the global smartphone market indicates that sales are up and that Apple have catapulted into second place after the release on the iphone. Here’s a summary of the report findings:
- worldwide smartphone shipments rose by 28% in the third quarter 2008. The figures reached a new high of 39.9 million
- Nokia is still the market leader and has held that position for several years. This quarter Apple and RIm made inroads into narrowing the gap.
- Smartphones now represent 13% of the overall mobile phone market. This is up from 11% last quarter.
- Apple overtook RIM to take second place after the release of the iphone 3G
- The top 5 smartphone vendors this quarter were Nokia, Apple, RIM, Motorola and HTC
- In an interview with 13,000 European mobile phone users, touch screens emerged as the most popular device design
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