According to IDC 152.3 million smartphones were sold in early 2012 and 59% of them where with Android while iOS on 23% of them.
"The popularity of Android and iOS is due to a combination of factors that competitors have struggled to keep up with (...) Neither were the first to reach the market or offer a number of features, but the user experience easy and intuitive offering made quickly won followers in mass, "says Ramon Llamas (haha," Llamas "), a senior analyst at technology research at IDC.
The IDC notes that the broad market leadership Android occurred for a variety of designs and flavors that the platform is offered on the shelves, which made its sales jump 145% compared to 2011. The agency says the biggest sellers of little robots were the Koreans from Samsung, which accounted for 45.4% of sales of the devices with the operating system.
Despite being behind in the overall proportions, the IDC notes that the iPhone had "its best quarter ever," shot up the good sales of the iPhone and the arrival of the 4S model to operators who had never marketed the omnipresent and omniscient apple smartphone . Sold 88% more than last year.
Symbian is already the end climão that party because of the arrival of Windows Phone 7, which is still struggling to gain a place in the sun. With 2.2% of the market, its sales grew 26.9% over 2011. Meanwhile the almost defunct Blackberry still has 9.7% of the pie, but its sales fell 29.7% compared to 2010.
"The popularity of Android and iOS is due to a combination of factors that competitors have struggled to keep up with (...) Neither were the first to reach the market or offer a number of features, but the user experience easy and intuitive offering made quickly won followers in mass, "says Ramon Llamas (haha," Llamas "), a senior analyst at technology research at IDC.
The IDC notes that the broad market leadership Android occurred for a variety of designs and flavors that the platform is offered on the shelves, which made its sales jump 145% compared to 2011. The agency says the biggest sellers of little robots were the Koreans from Samsung, which accounted for 45.4% of sales of the devices with the operating system.
Despite being behind in the overall proportions, the IDC notes that the iPhone had "its best quarter ever," shot up the good sales of the iPhone and the arrival of the 4S model to operators who had never marketed the omnipresent and omniscient apple smartphone . Sold 88% more than last year.
Symbian is already the end climão that party because of the arrival of Windows Phone 7, which is still struggling to gain a place in the sun. With 2.2% of the market, its sales grew 26.9% over 2011. Meanwhile the almost defunct Blackberry still has 9.7% of the pie, but its sales fell 29.7% compared to 2010.
