{"id":64768,"date":"2012-11-15T15:17:40","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T13:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=64768"},"modified":"2012-11-15T15:27:47","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T13:27:47","slug":"smartphone-war-android-vs-ios-vs-blackberry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/64768-smartphone-war-android-vs-ios-vs-blackberry.html","title":{"rendered":"Smartphone war: Android vs iOS vs BlackBerry"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gartner<\/a> recently released its latest worldwide mobile phone sales figures, showing that Android<\/a> has extended its lead in the global smartphone operating system market.<\/p>\n

According to Gartner Android continued to increase its market share, up 19.9 percentage points in the third quarter of 2012.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough RIM<\/a> lost market share, it climbed to the No. 3 position as Symbian<\/a> is nearing the end of its lifecycle,\u201d said Gartner.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

With the launch of iPhone 5, Gartner analysts expect iOS<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

Windows Phone<\/a>\u2019s share weakened year-on-year as the Windows Phone 8 launch dampened demand of Windows Phone 7 devices.<\/p>\n

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Operating System<\/strong><\/td>\n3Q12<\/strong> Units<\/strong><\/td>\n3Q12 Market Share (%)<\/strong><\/td>\n3Q11<\/strong> Units<\/strong><\/td>\n3Q11 Market Share (%)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Android<\/td>\n122,480.0<\/td>\n72.4<\/td>\n60,490.4<\/td>\n52.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
iOS<\/td>\n23,550.3<\/td>\n13.9<\/td>\n17,295.3<\/td>\n15.0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Research In Motion<\/td>\n8,946.8<\/td>\n5.3<\/td>\n12,701.1<\/td>\n11.0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bada<\/td>\n5,054.7<\/td>\n3.0<\/td>\n2,478.5<\/td>\n2.2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Symbian<\/td>\n4,404.9<\/td>\n2.6<\/td>\n19,500.1<\/td>\n16.9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Microsoft<\/td>\n4,058.2<\/td>\n2.4<\/td>\n1,701.9<\/td>\n1.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Others<\/td>\n683.7<\/td>\n0.4<\/td>\n1,018.1<\/td>\n0.9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Total<\/strong><\/td>\n169,178.6<\/strong><\/td>\n100.0<\/strong><\/td>\n115,185.4<\/strong><\/td>\n100.0<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

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New research by Gartner reveals the latest smartphone operating trends globally<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":64560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[397,605,35,691,653,3570],"class_list":["post-64768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-android","tag-apple","tag-headline","tag-ios","tag-nokia","tag-symbian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64768"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64798,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64768\/revisions\/64798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}