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ABI Research: Android captured 46.4% of the Q2 smartphone market share

By on July 29, 2011 at 8:11am in Mobile News


Android adoption is increasing at an incredible rate. Google recently announced they are seeing over 550,000 Android phones activated every day, but according to the latest report from ABI Research the mobile OS captured 46.4% of the Q2 smartphone market share. ABI says there were 103 million smartphones shipped in Q2 (Strategy Partners stated earlier today that 110 million smartphones were shipped), 47 million of them were powered by Google’s Android platform. Leaving the remaining 53% to Apple (shipped 20.3 million iPhones), Windows Phone, RIM, HP/Palm, Nokia and others.

ABI also believes that Samsung raked in the most Android market share with 34% of all Q2 Android shipments (15,980,000), followed by HTC with 23% (10,810,000), and Sony Ericsson with 11% (5,170,000). The other 20 million devices are presumably from Motorola, Acer and others.

Source: Reuters

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    Posted by zico | July 29, 2011, 8:41 am
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    • While it is a somewhat facetious way of saying it, Android hasn’t gained the same giant slice of market share in Canada as it has elsewhere. I think that a lot has to do with the carriers only relatively recently picking up the top of the line Android models.

      I see more Droids out and about than I used to, but I still see way more iPhones and Blackberrys. With two of the Big 3 now holding high end devices on their roster though, this could change fairly soon.

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      Posted by jellmoo | July 29, 2011, 9:21 am

  2. iphone is going down =)

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    Posted by JVP | July 29, 2011, 10:37 am
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  3. The market shares are going to be different in different countries. In Canada, Blackberrys have been very popular for a long time. Then the iPhone came and was available for all 3 major carriers and it gained a lot of market share in Canada. Android came later and was not very heavily marketed in Canada at all. Only recently have I seen more marketing for Android phones. Still, I find I’m always bombarded by ads for the iPhone all the time. I see way more ads for the iPhone than for everything else combined.

    Looking around me, I have noticed more an more Android phones over time. Still, I find that iPhones are more common. Backberrys are use in my office, so I see them here at work all the time.

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    Posted by Stuntman | July 29, 2011, 12:02 pm
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  4. Android is class, Apple is trash

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    Posted by Jay | July 29, 2011, 12:09 pm
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  5. [...] ABI just released their Q2 numbers for smartphone operating systems and OEMs. Android came out ahead, as usual (feels good to say that), with 46% of the market share in Q2’11. They have Nokia at 16% as they fail to capture mind share from users in light of more contemporary operating systems. We’re still seeking numbers from the rest of the software vendors. The breakdown of OEMs’ Android-based shipments is as follows: Samsung accounted for 34%, HTC for 23%, and Sony Ericsson took 11% in Q2, with other OEMs having to be lumped into an “other” category until we can scrape together the full slate of numbers. Well update this post once we do. [Reuters] [...]

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    Posted by ABI: Android Captured 46% of the Market Share in Q2 « Gaming « n0b0dy Gadget | July 29, 2011, 12:22 pm
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  6. Looks like Apple is going to have a repeat of what happened back in the 90′s. Closed systems suck…. Control freaks rarely win the IT space and no one is more of a control freak than Steve Jobs.

    They should have learned from their mistakes 20 years ago…

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    Posted by Slype | July 29, 2011, 12:52 pm
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    Posted by ABI Research: Android captured 46.4% of the Q2 smartphone market share – MobileSyrup.com « Blackberry « Bilal's Hardware | July 29, 2011, 3:37 pm
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  8. I like how these andriod i****s keep offering up ideas for apple and see their demise. In reality they are setting sales records.

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    Posted by jim | July 29, 2011, 8:50 pm
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  9. Hmmm… I wonder how people would respond to Iphone5.

    http://androidaccelerate.blogspot.com/2011/07/googles-android-able-to-gather-464.html

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    Posted by rj | July 29, 2011, 11:23 pm
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  10. Yeah sure… Androind has more market share than iPhone. OK, but it took 5 companies combined to outsell sell 1.

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    Posted by steve | August 19, 2011, 7:19 pm
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  11. Oh yeah, Motorola Charm for $59 outselling the big bad iPhone… Real impressive.

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    Posted by Ronnie | August 19, 2011, 7:21 pm
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  12. Hell, I could have a piece of iPhone market share too if I gave away free phones.

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    Posted by 1337 h4x0r | August 19, 2011, 7:23 pm
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