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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