Android smart phone shipments grow 886% year-on-year in Q2 2010

Nokia retained a large lead in the worldwide smart phone market in Q2 2010, achieving a 38% market share. The vendor shipped a record 23.8 million smart phones through the quarter, on behalf of growth of 41% on a year ago, as it listening carefully on delivering reasonably priced smart phone contributions to the market, such as its popular 5230 touch-screen handset, base on the Symbian operating system (OS). But Nokia’s market supremacy is not as irrefutable as it once was, with its act outpaced by development in the smart phone market as a partial.



The smart phone market grows by 64% annually all-inclusive in Q2 2010. At the same time, shipment of RIM’s BlackBerry smart phones grew by 41%. Helped by the sustained strong performance of devices such as the Curve 8520, it was once again the second placed vendor with an 18% market share, while also retain its leadership position in North and Latin America. Despite a period of confused PR, initial shipments of the iPhone 4 were unsurprisingly strong and contributed to Apple’s 61% growth and universal market share of 13% for the quarter. But analysis of Canalys’ detailed, globally reliable data shows it is the collective growth of Android device shipments crossways a range of handset vendors’ portfolio that is most extraordinary. With key products from HTC, Motorola, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and LG, among others, shipments of smart phones running the Google-backed Android operating system grew an impressive 886% in Q2 2010.
‘The latest release of our full and complete country-level smart phone shipment data for Q2 2010 clearly reveals the imposing momentum Android is gaining in markets around the world,’ said Canalys VP and Principal Analyst, Chris Jones, commenting on the publication. ‘In the United States, for example, we have seen the main carrier, Verizon Wireless, heavily promoting high-profile Android devices, such as the Droid by Motorola and the Droid Incredible by HTC. These products have been well received by the market, with customers eager to download and engage with mobile applications and services, such as Internet browsing, social networking, games and navigation.’ The United States smart phone market grew 41% year on year. It is the largest smart phone market in the world by a important margin, with 14.7 million units accounting for 23% of global shipments in Q2 2010. Android devices together represented a 34% share of the US market in the quarter, and with growth of 851% Android became the major smart phone platform in the country.