Touchscreen smartphones sales rose twice, Apple still in the lead

10 February, 2010
The high-tech industry analyzers from Canalys have published a very interesting report about the touchscreen and smartphone markets in 2009. Apparently last year was the first time...

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  • 11 Feb 2010

Anonymous, 11 Feb 2010motorola sold over 3-4 milions unit smartphone in 2009 mi... moreyes even milesone/droid break iphone selling record in us

milestone and 3gs are best 2009 smartphone
and 2010 is very good year for motorola with new super phone like motoroi xt720 - xt800 -xt710 - backflip -calagry -
and shadow and .....

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    • Anonymous
    • 33V
    • 11 Feb 2010

    motorola sold over 3-4 milions unit smartphone in 2009
    milestone/droid and dext

    why moto is not in this list ?!??
    is this list true ?
    im not sure

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      • poderosobeto
      • Prq
      • 11 Feb 2010

      look at nokia growing up 4000% from 2008 to 2009, it wasn´t even in the list last years, they were part of "other" and now its in 2nd place, wow, and look Androir too, 1000% growth, its amazing, and just wait because we are gonna see androids even in ur soup.

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        • Anonymous
        • Er2
        • 11 Feb 2010

        Anonymous, 11 Feb 2010Nokia will be number one in touch screen phone market this ... moreIf touchscreen is so important / lucrative part of the business for the almighty brand, why it did NOT release any (3G) touchscreen phone before the release of iphone?

        Where I live I see more iphones than 58xx+N97 series combined....and nobody is using X6 at the moment.

        The almost 1 year old iphone 3GS is still selling like hotcakes where I live, especially with Vodafone joined the bandwagon. On the contrary, the almighty brand is "pushing" its old 5800/N97 to various operators with heavy discounts.

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          • Anonymous
          • t7v
          • 11 Feb 2010

          Anonymous, 11 Feb 2010Quote from my statistics professor: "figures don't lie... moreWhy

          this is because nokia is busy improving gsm wifi power patents, apple is so smart that they want to copy their ip and have more free time to make itoy

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            • Anonymous
            • t7w
            • 11 Feb 2010

            Nokia will be number one in touch screen phone market this year

            wait and see

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              • Anonymous
              • 4Uf
              • 11 Feb 2010

              Anonymous, 10 Feb 2010Your idiocy is showing, Symbian grew from 74926550 to 78511... moreI plainly stated I didn't know how they were getting their figures. I was looking at % of market share. Bottom line is when you have 52.4% of the market in 2008, & drop to 47.2% in 2009 you lost market share.
              But if calling me an idiot makes you feel better, I'm glad I could help.

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                • bliss
                • 0Yv
                • 11 Feb 2010

                Just to add another major aspect of the Nexus one and to put a final nail on iphones's coffin is the fact that Nexus one has "TURN BY TURN" with speech NAVIGATION FOR FREE.

                Simply Speak your location and the phone turns in to a "Navigation unit" telling you by voice turn by turn to take you to your location. A feature that Iphone doesn't provide unless you pay for it.

                End of discussion.

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                  • bliss
                  • 0Yv
                  • 11 Feb 2010

                  Anonymous, 11 Feb 2010Figures speak louder than words. Iphone rules. I'm so exci... moreSelling more doesn't mean better, just means Apple advertising costs were alot and more people were fed to believe that the Iphone is better since visual effect has taken over common sense and thinking.

                  As I said earlier Nexus One-out performs and out does iphone in every category. You don't have to go far to look at the features and specs to see that Nexus One out does Iphone or any other phone when you consider speed, multi tasking, speech recognition in all text writing as well as email and search along with the fastest cpu at 1 GHz processor speed. That is almost 40% faster than Iphone.

                  The only thing that iphone and apple present that is some what more advantages (although main stream and business people don't care as much) is having more applications. As we speak, Android is out putting apps with better features than iphone. The once "pinch zoom" feature that was the stable signature by iphone is a thing of past since Android has that feature as well.

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                    • deep space bar
                    • q}V
                    • 11 Feb 2010

                    Anonymous, 11 Feb 2010Figures speak louder than words. Iphone rules. I'm so exci... morefigures are also incorrect and mostly made out of lies and paid off companies

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                      • Anonymous
                      • FJT
                      • 11 Feb 2010

                      Figures speak louder than words. Iphone rules. I'm so excited when the next gen iphone comes out. It would be super awesome than it already is. Can't wait.

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                        • K1D
                        • 11 Feb 2010

                        Well done job Nokia. You are the best. Keep up good work.

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                          • Anonymous
                          • 0Yv
                          • 11 Feb 2010

                          Anonymous, 11 Feb 2010dude android is googles version of iphone OS they hang over... moreBut dude, we were comparing phone to phone and I stated that Android is the future, like how Apple computers were in mid 80s.

                          Nexus one (regardless of their platform, being Android) is already performing much better than Iphone or any other phone on the market when considering all the features it has. I am sure Nokia phones and other competition phones have very good features however what separates HTC-Nexus one "Android" from the rest is the multiple other features that they (the competition) can't perform or don't have the capability to run it.

                          Everything on Android HTC now runs just as good if not better than any other phone out there when considering all of it's features overall.

                          Again, I'm sure there are phones that can do one thing a little better than Android, but when looking at all the characteristics, features and performance, Android leaves everyone behind. That was the point in the comments I made. That and the fact that the Android platform is the future when you consider, multi tasking, speech recognition and speech typing in all areas of text, email, search and etc. Something you can't do with any other phone at the moment unless I have missed one!!

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                            • Anonymous
                            • Er2
                            • 11 Feb 2010

                            Anonymous, 10 Feb 2010nokia barely started touch screen phones and look u apple f... moreQuote from my statistics professor: "figures don't lie, ___ figures"

                            If I beg for money and I get $10 a day, and next month I get a job with salary of US$3600, how much increase in terms of "%" would I make?

                            In case you forget, if I remember correctly

                            Motorola released its first touchscreen phone A6188 in year 2000
                            Motorola released its first 3G touchscreen phone A925 in 2004
                            iphone 2G was released in June 2007
                            iphone 3G (non-S) was released around June 2008

                            How about the almighty brand? First touchscreen phones were 7700/7710, but how many of them have you seen?

                            The almighty brand REFUSED to release any touchscreen phone until AFTER the release of iphone 3G...around Nov/Dec with its cheapy 5800. (friend of mine got one in Dec for US$141...where one had to pay at least US$300 for iphone, both with contract from the same operator).

                            Then within 2009, the almighty brand suddenly released over half a dozen touchscreen phones. Why?

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                              • Anonymous
                              • kDi
                              • 11 Feb 2010

                              bliss, 11 Feb 2010I have used cell phones for over 20 years and in all kinds ... moredude android is googles version of iphone OS they hang over their OS like apple does strict as hell and not as bad as apple but no freedom like symbian or maemo plus their are like a million versions of android 1.0 - 2.0 like wtf

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                                • bliss
                                • 0Yv
                                • 11 Feb 2010

                                I have used cell phones for over 20 years and in all kinds from Nokia to Motorola, Samsung (liked it a lot), Iphone I used through my friends and family, name the brand and platform, I have had it, used them and nothing comes close to the Google (HTC) Nexus ONE phone.

                                The Android is now what Apple computers were back in mid 80s, which is the future. What Android is doing and the direction is going will leave everyone on the cell phone planet behind and something to think about. The differences between the Android phone compared to the rest, including Nokia-Iphone and the rest will be like driving a car from the 70s with roll up windows to an all out top of the line Bentley with all the modern evolved car.

                                Iphone has the name now but in about not a distant future, probably within 18 months everyone will see a difference in how the next generation is going to sway toward the Android phone.

                                Android is changing everything that was once a great idea to a common place in mobile-smart phone world and will evolve in to the future with features that would have been only a dream when looking back.

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                                  • Anonymous
                                  • Er2
                                  • 11 Feb 2010

                                  Anonymous, 10 Feb 2010Symbian is not inferior compared to android, it's just ugly... moreiphone costs twice more than most expensive almighty brand phones? Did you consider N97/mini/X6/8800 series?

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                                    • deep space bar
                                    • kDi
                                    • 11 Feb 2010

                                    look at this article pic reall closely iphone sells alot but whats in front is it not a nokia device that runs symbian and touchscreen and since they lead gsm knows how to make a article pic lol

                                    I'm really observant

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                                      • Anonymous
                                      • njB
                                      • 10 Feb 2010

                                      Kameo, 10 Feb 2010Yeah, SE is so sad, even though I really liked Ericsson in ... moreSE is not in the list because they had slept in 2007&2008 and now isthe result
                                      but SE is waking up like moto
                                      look at satio&vivaz&x10
                                      they are good phones
                                      i think SE will go back to good old days because sony is not a small company

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                                        • Anonymous
                                        • njB
                                        • 10 Feb 2010

                                        Ewan!, 10 Feb 2010I am extremely HAPPY that Sony Ericsson is not in that list... moreMOTO&LG are not in the list not only SE