Samsung saw its market share in the global smartphone market last year to grow more than Apple. The manufacturer sold in the last quarter of 2008 138 percent more smartphones than one year earlier, Apple grew by 111 percent.
The large growth in the smartphone market, Samsung is due to the sales success of its touchscreen Omnia i900 phone, concludes research firm Gartner, which has compiled the figures. Gartner defines smartphones phones equipped with a "smartphone OS ', ie Symbian, Windows Mobile, Blackberry OS, Palm OS, a Linux distro or Mac OS X.Samsung sold in the fourth quarter, according to Gartner, 1.6 million smartphones, while Apple managed to sell 4.1 million. This latter had a market share of ten percent in the smartphone segment. Besides Samsung and Apple Blackberry maker RIM saw its market share rise sharply, by 85 percent. RIM continues with a market share of 19.5 percent the number two behind leader Nokia: still has four of the ten selling a Nokia smartphones. That is considerably less than the end of 2007, when half of the Finnish-made devices were sold.
HTC grew not as hard as Apple, Samsung and RIM. This manufacturer sold in the last quarter according to Gartner, 1.6 million smartphones. That draws the analyst firm, however, that only devices which count not the name of a state provider. The devices that HTC T-Mobile sells, for example, do not count for these figures.
Gartner estimates that until the end of 2008 approximately 775,000 Android phones are sold. The total sales of smartphones in 2008, according to research firm 139 million. That is considerably less than that provided by analyst firm ABI Research has published , stating that in 2008 approximately 171 million smartphones were sold.
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