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US SMARTPHONE PENETRATION VS MOBILE OS MARKETSHARE |
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After just
three months of iPhone supremacy, Android is back as the top-selling mobile
operating system in the U.S.
Phones running Android jumped to 49.4 percent of all smartphone sales in
America, up 6.4 percent over the same period a year ago. iOS came in second, of
course, with 45.9 percent. Interestingly, Windows Phone was the only other
mobile operating system to grow, adding over a percentage point of market
share, while BlackBerry dropped to only a third of its previous share, to only
.9 percent of the market.
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Nokia launched its first mobile phone — the Mobira Talkman — in 1984. Weighing just over 11 pounds, the phone was revolutionary for its time. A little over 20 years later, in 2005, the company introduced its first multimedia smartphones, and in 2011 it introduced the Lumia line, the first Windows Phone handsets.
Check out the infographic below for a look back at Nokia from 1984 to today.
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The comscore chart shows the State of Mobile OS in UK
during 2010 and this year Apple had overtaken Symbian to become the top smartphone
platform in the UK (with a 27 percent market share)., Android was at that point
just struggling to make its presence in the UK marketplace grew 634 percent year-over-year to shoot into second place
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Androids period of growth in UK had started around April 2010, and and by July,2010 it had almost doubled its share to 10%
Android’s remarkable growth in the UK market has been the periodic between oct 2010 to July, 2011 during which it registered almost 100% growth.. from 25% to approx
50%. Post 2011 year en Android share
declined 5% by Dec 2011 before starting
to stabilize and grow its Marketshare by Feb 2012
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