World Smartphone Sales Report

Posted by Chris Leckness on Mar 13, 2009

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Gartner’s smartphone numbers for 2008 are in…

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You might see something above of interest. Not that the iPhone had 111% growth in 2008. It’s the fact that HTC remained pretty constant. The one thing this chart doesn’t show though. It doesn’t indicate sales of HTC devices that were made by HTC but sold through other means.

Under the name HTC, Gartner counts only the company’s own-branded devices. The devices that HTC designs for mobile operators are shown separately under the operators’ names in these statistics. 

It’s really hard to get a good snapshot of the OS battle from the manufactures though, especially since HTC now makes devices running Android too. Here is another chart from the report that shows the Operating System numbers…

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You can read more about this report here.

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Chris Leckness is a Microsoft MVP, Mobile Devices and a member of the exclusive focus group, Mobius. Chris has been a big time supporter/user of Windows Mobile since the Dell Axim days when it was Pocket PC 2002. Chris loves Zune, but also owns 3 iPhones too. His personal blog is chris.leckness.com.

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  • doogald

    Microsoft is claiming 20 million unit sales for WM for 2008. Are these figures incorrect, or do we disbelieve Microsoft?

  • http://www.consumergrantreport.com/ doogald

    Microsoft is claiming 20 million unit sales for WM for 2008. Are these figures incorrect, or do we disbelieve Microsoft?
    Sorry… forgot to say great post – can’t wait to read your next one!

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