Google Takes Lead In Fast Growing Smartphone Market
Reuters Article
In the fourth quarter device manufacturers shipped over 32M Google powered units. Even though Apple shipped 86% more units than the previous year, at 16M units they are far behind Googles global numbers.
Canalys reports that the overall market exceeded 100M units in the fourth quarter. This was an overall 88% increase from the same period in 2009. For 2010, the worldwide smartphone market was about 300M units which grew 80% over 2009 total volume.
Nokia continues to lose market share in the Smartphone market. They are hurt by the fact that they are not a significant player in US which is the largest Smartphone market. They have no easy task back in the US as the market intensifies with the introduction of the iPhone 4 at Verizon Wireless which becomes available to existing subscribers on February 3rd.
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