New survey shows Android finished 2011 with 48.8% of the global smartphone market
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While many have counted RIM out, for the year the Canadian based manufacturer increased its shipments by 5% to 51.4 million units. That works out to a 10.4% slice of the global smartphone pie. But things did deteriorate in the fourth quarter for RIM with its shipments for the three month period declining by 9.7% to 13.2 million. That accounted for 8.3% of the market.
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Android led the way in 2011 says Canalys |
The biggest loser for the year was Windows Phone which lost 43.3% of 2010's slice of the market to reach just 1.4% of smartphones shipped in 2011. The 6.8 million handsets shipped with Microsoft's mobile OS installed was even well behind the 13.2 million units that were equipped with Samsung's bada OS.
For the quarter, smartphone shipments rose 56.6% to 158.5 million units. For the year, 487.7 million smartphones were shipped globally, a rise of 62.7% for the year.
source: Canalys via WMPoweruser
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19. G2Noobin posted on 04 Feb 2012, 20:50 3 7
Bing Bing Bizz Bang!! Android for life... lmao i went to a local best buy and walked up to a guy with my samsung galaxy s and he said are you looking for a phone? and im like no, just browsing.... well guy didn't believe me that i had a galaxy s2 as well... and pulls some serious attitude...while i was noticing the s2 pixels didn't seem so sharp....as i keep inspecting the s2...i pull out my rooted Galaxy S1... pull down the zipper on my MIUI theme....hes like i've seen that before!!, androids are sooooo customizable....And i ask him have you rooted before...and hes like no i haven't got to it yet...(all this with a serious attitude, mind you, as he thinks he knows more than me)
Well moral of the story is, he was an Apple user....sitting on his high horse...too bad that horse is 1 foot high, rocks, and is for children.
2. darac posted on 04 Feb 2012, 10:38 8 4
ha, and I estimated at least 60 million androids in q 4. only 20 million short :p
anyway, I repeat again - apple can break it's own records as much as it wants, but android will take over the world.
this year could see a pretty astonishing 350 million android phones being sold
4. Jericho posted on 04 Feb 2012, 13:22 2 3
Hey guys read the phonearena review of lg spectrum vs samsung galaxy s2 biased review. And today just read the review on gsmarena
www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_r_vs_lg_optimus_2x-review-713.php
now thats how you write a review(unbiased)
6. kamejoko posted on 04 Feb 2012, 13:26 3 0
winphone 7 (MS + nokia + ss + lg + htc + Fujitsu + Toshiba + Zte) < Bada (SS).
7. remixfa posted on 04 Feb 2012, 13:43 7 6
you know what that means?
half of all smartphones are.. FULL FLASH ENABLED!! AND GROWING. :)
viva la flash :)
10. bigboy029 posted on 04 Feb 2012, 13:49 4 0
13. remixfa posted on 04 Feb 2012, 15:15 2 5
will replace and "replaced" are not the same thing. you have the better part of a decade before HTML5 is the main media plug in on the internet.
I'm concerned about what works now, not what will work 2 or 3 purchases from now.
Besides, android is HTML5 compliant, so its the best of both worlds. Why would you want to limit yourself to "the future" and screw yourself out of "the present". Doesnt make sense to me.
17. dsDoan posted on 04 Feb 2012, 20:17 4 1
Adobe will no longer support Flash on Android following the current version used on ICS. This doesn't apply only to Android; Adobe will stop supporting Flash on mobile devices, period. Therefore, it makes sense to limit ourselves to the future, when that future is very near.
This means, the number of flash-enabled devices will be shrinking very soon, until only legacy devices will still have it. Much sooner than the latter part of the decade.
18. remixfa posted on 04 Feb 2012, 20:40 3 2
no, it actually doesnt.
What Adobe said, is that they will no longer support new versions of anything mobile past its current iteration + the upcomming Blackberry10 software. They said that they WILL however continue to provide tech support and updates indefinately to devices.
And unless you have information that I dont have, its going to be quite a long time. ICS is at a total of 1% android adoption, so its going to be YEARS until it filters in and then out of the mainstream. Also, that doesnt mean that GOOGLE cant continue to install flash into future ICS or Jellybean updates by updating the code itself.
Then you have to take in to consideration that most websites are not HTML5 compliant as it is. There is little reason for a small website to take on the cost of converting everything to HTML5 (someone has to get paid, ect ect ect) when Flash works just fine and is compatable with every PC and Mac out there.
And again, Android has been HTML5 compliant for quite a while now. And again, why would u not want to be compliant with todays standard (flash) as well as tomorrow's standard (html5).
Android is 50% of the global smartphone market all by itself. Soon, Blackberry will be making only blackberry10 software which is flash capable... thats another 15-20% of the market if they stay afloat. With Android's consistent rise in market share and blackberry's market share, you could be seeing 70%+ of the mobile market continuing to be FLASH capable within a year or so, which is nearly double of what it was when Adobe said that no NEW versions would be made.
Tomorrow, just like today and yesterday, iOS users will find themselves without the full web while Android and RIM users will be able to see and do everything on the web... Flash or HTML5.
Looks like Flash is "winning" the argument without trying.
20. dsDoan posted on 04 Feb 2012, 21:12 3 0
"What Adobe said, is that they will no longer support new versions of anything mobile past its current iteration" That's exactly what I said.
I don't expect Blackberry to count for much, the way things are currently going. I also don't expect Google to develop on proprietary software for Android. Google is about being open and innovative, so HTML5 vs Flash is an obvious decision for them.
Can you cite where Adobe stated they'll support current versions of mobile Flash indefinitely? They said they would support it, but I never saw them say indefinitely. Indefinitely is unrealistic, to be honest.
27. SleepingOz posted on 05 Feb 2012, 16:30 0 3
who cares?! Android has both Flash and HTML5. Android users win anyway, unlike other sheeps so f**k off!
28. dsDoan posted on 05 Feb 2012, 16:51 2 0
You sir, are far to articulate for me. I cannot argue your logic, with all of its backed up facts and information.
Please accept my humble withdraw from the argument.
8. darac posted on 04 Feb 2012, 13:44 1 1
..and not just that, camejoko.
number of units sold:
WP(8 brands ) x two = Bada (Samsung )
WP (8 brands ) x three = Symbian(Nokia )
!!!
Windows phone so far is by far the most epic OS fail ever
9. darac posted on 04 Feb 2012, 13:45 1 0
..and not just that, camejoko.
number of units sold:
WP(8 brands ) x two = Bada (Samsung )
WP (8 brands ) x three = Symbian(Nokia )
!!!
Windows phone so far is by far the most epic OS fail ever
11. darac posted on 04 Feb 2012, 13:50 1 0
correction:
WP (8 brands ) x 11. 7= Symbian(Nokia )
12. ilia1986 posted on 04 Feb 2012, 13:57 0 2
Android, Android
by his honor is sworn
To keep Apple forever at bay!
And the fiercest iFans rout
when they hear Freedom's shout,
Android, for your blessing we pray!
Fus Ro Dah!
