News: Android Captures Smartphone Sales Lead
from PC World
Android was the top operating system in smartphone sales in the U.S. in the second quarter, with BlackBerry maker Research in Motion finishing second and Apple's iOS in third, a Gartner analyst said last week.
While it may be too soon for Google and the Android community to assume the smartphone OS war is won in the U.S., Android's ascendancy to the top spot for the first time is a "milestone," said Gartner analyst Carolina Milanesi.Android slightly edged out RIM in the U.S., with 4.96 million devices sold for the quarter, compared with RIM's 4.84 million. Apple 's iOS for the iPhone sold 3.22 million,
Other smartphone operating systems did far fewer sales in the U.S. in the quarter, with Microsoft 's Windows at 662,000, Symbian at 420,000 and all others at 434,000, Gartner said.
Nokia has had a challenge selling smartphones, and other mobile phones, in the U.S., even though its Symbian OS was No. 1globally, with 25.3 million smartphones sold. RIM finished secondglobally with 11.2 million; Android finished third globally with 10.6million and Apple's iOS was fourth globally with 8.7 million.
Android catapulted to first in the U.S. in the second quartercompared with a year earlier, when far fewer Android phones were sold.Only 380,000 Android smartphones sold in the second quarter of 2009,Gartner said.
More telling is that RIM sold 266,000 fewer smartphones in the U.S.in the second quarter compared to a year earlier. The third place iOSincreased by 760,000 over the same period.
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