Mobile: Nokia collapses, Apple takes off

Published by Gartner for the second quarter of 2011 mobile sales figures show that Nokia, though remains leader of manufacturers in terms of market share, suffers a sharp drop in close by 8 points to 22.8%. Samsung moves second (16.7%) and takes advantage of the growing popularity of Android.


Android is indeed used and experienced very strong growth with 43.4% of market share in the second quarter, compared to 17.2% last year. Many sellers of Android with Samsung phones (16.3% of shares), LG (5.7%) or HTC (2.6%) and benefit from this climbing popularity.

With 4.6% of shares, Apple ranks fourth vendor of mobile. iOS remains the third most used mobile system, equipping 16.8% of mobile devices. Gartner also indicates that mobile phones generally have experienced good growth this year, with a good from 16.5% to $ 428.7 million units sold. Smartphones accounted for 25% of them, and have experienced a sharp increase in their sales of 74% on the year.

Another study, conducted on the same period by IDC and focus this time only on the market of smartphones, shows also that Apple takes off strongly on this sector. It flies as first place in Nokia. The strong fall of the Finnish manufacturer is indeed confirmed this market, where it passes from 37.3% to 15.7%, leaving him third place behind Samsung (16.2%, 5.6% in 2010). Apple thus passes to, with an increase of 6 points on the year to 19.1 per cent. RIM (BlackBerry) has also experienced a decline in the year, losing 6 points to 11.6%, while HTC climbs gently to 11% market share.

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