Apple, Linux-Based Android Gaining Share in Fast-Growing Smartphone Market

“Worldwide mobile phone sales grew 17 percent year-over-year in
the first quarter of 2010, but smartphones greatly outpaced the
overall mobile market, up 48.7 percent year-over-year, and it was
Apple and Google that led the way.

“The survey from Gartner states the smartphone market is rapidly
accelerating to account for more and more of the total handset
market. Smartphones sales in Q1 of 2010 were 54.3 million units, or
17.3 percent of the total market of 314.7 million units. In the
year-prior quarter, smartphones accounted for 13.6 percent of
sales.

“While the brand names get all the attention, Gartner noted that
a “white box” market — generic phones with no brand name on them,
something the PC industry has had for years — has started to
spring up in Asia.”

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