Smartphone war: Android vs iOS vs BlackBerry
Gartner recently released its latest worldwide mobile phone sales figures, showing that Android has extended its lead in the global smartphone operating system market.
According to Gartner Android continued to increase its market share, up 19.9 percentage points in the third quarter of 2012.
“Although RIM lost market share, it climbed to the No. 3 position as Symbian is nearing the end of its lifecycle,” said Gartner.
“There was also channel destocking in preparation of new device launches for RIM, which resulted into 8.9 million sales to end users in the third quarter of 2012.”
With the launch of iPhone 5, Gartner analysts expect iOS share will grow strongly in the fourth quarter of 2012 because users held on to their replacements in many markets ahead of the iPhone 5 wider roll out.
Windows Phone’s share weakened year-on-year as the Windows Phone 8 launch dampened demand of Windows Phone 7 devices.
| Operating System | 3Q12 Units | 3Q12 Market Share (%) | 3Q11 Units | 3Q11 Market Share (%) |
| Android | 122,480.0 | 72.4 | 60,490.4 | 52.5 |
| iOS | 23,550.3 | 13.9 | 17,295.3 | 15.0 |
| Research In Motion | 8,946.8 | 5.3 | 12,701.1 | 11.0 |
| Bada | 5,054.7 | 3.0 | 2,478.5 | 2.2 |
| Symbian | 4,404.9 | 2.6 | 19,500.1 | 16.9 |
| Microsoft | 4,058.2 | 2.4 | 1,701.9 | 1.5 |
| Others | 683.7 | 0.4 | 1,018.1 | 0.9 |
| Total | 169,178.6 | 100.0 | 115,185.4 | 100.0 |
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