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Research firm Gartner said worldwide smartphone sales to end users represented 13.5 percent of all mobile device sales in the first quarter of this year, up from 11 percent in the first quarter of last year. In the above chart, all figures are in thousands, and Gartner said it is only counting HTC's self-branded devices, including the G1.
Source: Gartner
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Posted by Timm | May 20, 2009 - 1:44pm
These stats are meaningless as there is no agreed definition of a smartphone. Many Symbian devices (even by Nokia standards) are in the stone age of UI. These are the kinds of stats that gave Nokia a false sense of security and its current problems.
Perhaps a better metric would be devices that use touch or a trackball for navigation.
Posted by Anonymous | May 22, 2009 - 8:23am
touch or trackball? Most touch devices suck. Touch is hardly a UI innovation. Its a desperate attempt to follow Apple, which would have been successful with or without touch. I'd like to see some stats how most non-iphone users really feel about using a touch device.
Posted by John Boxall | May 26, 2009 - 2:03pm
On the contrary, touch is a _HUGE_ innovation in devices who's primary function is arguably web browsing.
On web pages filled with links the ability to quickly press any onscreen link is crucial.
Posted by Charles J | May 29, 2009 - 7:19pm
Using OS only as a definition of smartphone is limiting. Another angle would be (a) phone price and (b) phone functionalities.
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