Smartphones in 2009: Symbian Dominates, iPhone, RIM and Android Rising Fast

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Stan Schroeder
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Smartphones in 2009: Symbian Dominates, iPhone, RIM and Android Rising Fast
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Yes, Symbian is still on top, but it dropped from 52.4% to 46.9% market share, while its nearest competitor, RIM, grew from 16.6% to 19.9%. Another big loser is Windows Mobile, which dropped from 11.8% to 8.7% market share in 2009, and this trend will probably continue at least until we see the first Windows Phone 7 based devices.

As far as the entire mobile market is concerned, worldwide mobile phone sales to end users totalled 1.211 billion units in 2009, which is a 0.9 per cent decline compared to 2008.

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