Blackberry, iPhone, Android drive 49% smartphone jump

Release Date 19 May, 2010 in San Jose Business Journal

 
   

Android OS Gains Momentum

InformationWeek - Esther Shein - 19 May, 2010
Nokia's Symbian operating system remains in the top spot, but Google's mobile platform grew 707 % compared to the same period last year. ...

Smartphones take world by storm

BBC News - 19 May, 2010
Global sales of smartphones have continued their explosive grwoth, increasing by 49% in the first quarter of 2010. Research from Gartner indicated that ...

Smartphone sales boom as Android takes off

The Guardian (blog) - 19 May, 2010
Smartphone sales increased by 48.7% to 54.3 million units in this year's first quarter, according to research company Gartner, Inc. Smartphones are a small ...

Android Sales Surge, but Threats Loom

PC World - 19 May, 2010
Google's Android looks unstoppable, with quarterly sales steamrolling the iPhone in the US and now Windows Mobile globally, but it's only the eye of the ...

Mobile phone sales soar: study

Sydney Morning Herald - 19 May, 2010
Global mobile phone sales soared by 17 percent in the first quarter, driven by smartphone models, the Gartner tech industry research house said on Wednesday ...

Android overtakes Windows in smartphones

Financial Times - Maija Palmer - 19 May, 2010
Sales of smartphones using Google's Android operating system have overtaken Microsoft's Windows mobile phones for ...

Android, iPhone OS Gaining Worldwide Market Share

infoSync World - Sindre Lia - 19 May, 2010
Android and iPhone OS are gaining worldwide market share at the expense of Symbian, BlackBerry and Windows Mobile. ...

Smartphone Sales Jump 49% on RIM, Apple, Android

BusinessWeek - Diana ben-Aaron - 19 May, 2010
May 19 (Bloomberg) -- Smartphone manufacturers' sales rose the most in four years during the first quarter as Research in Motion Ltd., ...

Smartphones Drive Handset Sales

Wall Street Journal - Ruth Bender - 19 May, 2010
PARISâ€"Global sales of mobile handsets surged 17% in the first quarter, driven by rising demand for smartphones that also saw Research In ...

VCs see Android gaining on iPhone

Reuters - Alexei Oreskovic, Poornima Gupta - 19 May, 2010
An advertisement for the Apple iPhone is shown at a retail store of an Orange mobile phone network provider in Bordeaux, southwestern France, October 23, ...

Apple, Google lead smartphone surge

Fortune - Philip Elmer-DeWitt - 19 May, 2010
Smartphones -- Apple and Google's in particular -- were the driving force in mobile phone sales last quarter, according to a report issued by Gartner early ...

Mobile phone sales skyrocket

Inquirer - Edward Berridge - 19 May, 2010
THE BLUESTOCKING BEANCOUNTERS at Gartner have added up their sums and divided by their shoe size to report that mobile phone sales have ...

Global mobile sales grew 17 % in Q1

NDTV.com - 19 May, 2010
PTI, May 19, 2010 (Bangalore) Worldwide mobile phone sales to end users totalled 314.7 million units in the first quarter of 2010, a 17 per cent increase ...

Apple's IPhone Still Ahead of Android Globally, Says Gartner

PC World - 19 May, 2010
Sales of Android-based smartphones may have passed those of Apple's iPhone in North America, but globally the iPhone is still ahead of Android by more than ...

Google Android smacks down Windows Mobile in latest Gartner data

ZDNet (blog) - Matthew Miller - 19 May, 2010
Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system continues to stagnate as people wait for Windows Phone 7 and the ...

iPhone leads smart phone platforms

Bangkok Post - 19 May, 2010
The iPhone OS is the clear favourite smart phone platform for developers while the BlackBerry OS and Windows Mobile, rather than Android or Symbian, ...

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Reuters - 19 May, 2010
Google's (GOOG.O) Android smartphone software took fourth place for the first time ever in January-March, beating Microsoft's (MSFT. ...

Google beats Microsoft in smartphones: Gartner

Reuters - Mike Blake, Dan Lalor - 19 May, 2010
A T-Mobile G1 Google phone running Android is shown photographed in Encinitas, California, January 20, 2010. PARIS (Reuters) - Google Inc's Android took ...

Android kicks some fruity behinds

Manila Bulletin - Allan D. Francisco - 19 May, 2010
Numbers. We cannot live without them; we cannot talk, speak, and orate without them. Elizabeth B. Browning, one of my favorite poets, ...

VCs see Android gaining on iPhone

Reuters - Alexei Oreskovic, Poornima Gupta - 19 May, 2010
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The boom in mobile computing is set to heat up as Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) dominance of cool applications on its iPhone platform is ...

Android Jumps Past Windows Mobile Globally

Appscout - 19 May, 2010
According to new numbers released by Gartner, Android has managed to surprise Windows Mobile in global smartphone market share. Google's mobile OS slipped ...

MySpace Targets Android Developers

Wireless Week - Monica Alleven - 19 May, 2010
MySpace is at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco this week to bring developers up to date on the latest ...

Handset Sales Up, Apple and Android Growing

Wireless Week - Andrew Berg - 19 May, 2010
According to Gartner, mobile handset sales grew an impressive 17 percent in the first quarter of 2010 over the first ...

Android, Apple on the march in global smartphone market share

Yahoo! Tech - 19 May, 2010
Nearly half of the world's smartphones are still powered by the Symbian OS, according to a new report, with the BlackBerry operating system coming in a ...

Android Surging In Smartphone Market Ahead Of Windows Mobile

ITProPortal - Desire Athow - 19 May, 2010
Figures published by research powerhouse Gartner show that Android is now the fourth most popular operating system in the booming smartphone market behind ...

MySpace makes mobile move with free SDK

Pocket Gamer.Biz - Keith Andrew - 19 May, 2010
Given the sheer amount of games and apps that use Facebook Connect to link up with the social network, it's perhaps not all too surprising ...

Google's Android Beats Microsoft, Challenges Apple

Netbook Boards - 19 May, 2010
Google's Android operating system was the fourth most popular during the first quarter, according to the research firm Gartner. Android was in ten percent ...

Android powers past Windows on smartphones

Techwatch - Darren Allan - 19 May, 2010
Google's mobile operating system has surpassed Microsoft's OS when it comes to the smartphone market worldwide. Android was the fourth most ...

Android Continues To Gain Market Share

RedOrbit - 19 May, 2010
Google's Android mobile phone software is moving up in the smartphone market, beating Microsoft in the last quarter and challenging Apple, as the number of ...

Gartner: Android Smartphone Sales Now Exceed Windows Mobile

Gearlog (blog) - 19 May, 2010
A new Gartner report shows that worldwide mobile phone sales grew 17 percent in the first quarter of 2010, to 314.7 million units. ...

 

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