21 Feb 10 iPhone is My Phone – Touch-Screen Smartphone Market Stat
For the first time in the Smartphone’s history, touchscreen Smartphones have exceed 50% mark of a global shipment volume of smart phones. It happened in 2009. In percentage terms touchscreen Smartphones have increased by 108.9% over 2008, and in volume terms touchscreen Smartphone market achieved a global shipment volume of 75.8 million, which was mere 36.3 million units in 2008.
Touchscreen Smartphones made 55% of total global Smartphone shipment volume that was 166.3 million.
This is not the market Symbian OS leads. Apple is king here, despite the fall in its market share from 37.8% to 33.1%. However, the shipment volume grew by 82.9% to reach 25.1 million units from 13.7 million units in 2008.
Nokia touchscreen Smartphone shipment volume grew the most in 2009. It grew by astounding 4070.8% to capture 29.5% market share of touchscreen Smartphone market. In 2008, Nokia’s share was mere 1.5% of the total market.
At number three in terms of shipment volume was HTC that lost its 10% market share to Nokia. HTC was slowest growing touchscreen Smartphones brand in terms of global shipment volume in 2009. It grew just by 6%. (See image for complete picture).
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20 Feb 10 Symbian On Top of the Global Smartphone OS Vendors List
Despite dropping market share of Symbian-based Smartphone in the global market, the global shipment volume of Symbian Smartphone OS grew by 4.8% to 78.5 million from 74.9 million units in 2009, which made Symbian the number one Smartphone OS by shipment volume. In last one year, the global market share of Symbian Smartphone has dropped from 52.4% in 2008 to 47.2% in 2009.
RIM maintained its last year standing and finished 2009 at number two position in terms of global shipment as well as market share. The number of unit shipped rose by 46.6% from 23.6 million to 34.5 million, and its market share increased by 4.3% from 16.5% to 20.8%.
In terms of growth rate, Google’s Android has churned out a mammoth number. Google Android grew by 1073.5%. In volume terms, it increased from 663,500 units in 2008 to 7.8 million units in 2009, and its global market share grew from 0.5% to 4.7%.
The main loser in 2009 was Microsoft’s Smartphone OS. It has lost 26.4% of its volume compared to Smartphone OS volume in 2008— from 19.9 million units to 14.7 million units. Its market share also decline by 5.1% point from 13.9% to 8.8 %. (See image for complete data)
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27 Dec 09 Top 10 Most-Visited Websites of 2009
The eventful year of 2009 is about to wrap up, and it is time to analyze what has happened in the year passed by (well about to pass by). Experian Hitwise has done a study of the most-visited websites of 2009, and to no one’s surprise Google.com is the most searched website second year in the row and mail.yahoo.com is the second most searched website for the second consecutive year in 2009 as well.
Google.com got 6.70% of the total US traffic between January and November 2009, whereas, Yahoo mail got 4.44% visits. Facebook with 4.26% was at number 3 and Yahoo.com was at number 4 with 3.36% of the total US traffic between the said period. MySpace.com settled on number 5 with 3% of the total visits. Yahoo Search was on 8th Position. As we can see Google got just one listing in top 10, whereas, Yahoo has three. See the table below for the rest.
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