According to Gartner’s new Q2 2011 statistics, Nokia still has the biggest share in the mobile device market, even if they’re changing their strategies and continue losing market share.
Now Nokia owns 22.8 percent of the mobile device market – it’s 8 percent less than in the same quarter of the last year. Samsung is on the second place with 16.3 percent of market share, which, by the way, is also 1.5 percent less than in 2010. LG, Apple, RIM, Motorola, Sony Ericsson and other major handset manufacturers come next with really tiny market shares, but the “others” category owns 35.8 percent of the market, which is 7.7 percent more than in last year’s second quarter.
Overall, 428.7 million mobile devices were sold in Q2 2011, which is 16.5 percent more than in Q2 2010. According to Gartner, about the quarter of all sold mobile devices are smartphones, and it’s 8 percent more than in 2010.
The situation in the smartphone market is different, of course. Android has 43.4 percent of the smartphone OS market (it had only 17.2 percent last year, so it’s a huge progress). Apple’s iOS is also in a good position with its 18.2 percent of market share (against last year’s 14.1 percent). Symbian has 22.1 percent of the market now, but this number is decreasing from quarter to quarter. Microsoft’s sales have also decreased from 4.9 percent to 1.6 percent.
