Worldwide smartphone market share grew 64% in Q2, Android shipments grew 886%

By on Aug 2, 2010 at 12:07 PM
mobile August 2, 2010

Analytics firm Canalys has released their Q2 2010 smartphone market share metrics, and the numbers show Android continues its explosive growth. In Q2, the top three smartphone vendors in the U.S. were RIM, Apple, and HTC  respectively. Worldwide, the top three smartphone vendors were Nokia, RIM, and Apple respectively. The statistic in this report that really baked our noodle was the following: “With key products from HTC, Motorola, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and LG, among others, shipments of smart phones running the Google-backed Android operating system grew an impressive 886% in Q2 2010. [...] Android devices collectively represented a 34% share of the US market in the quarter, and with growth of 851% Android became the largest smart phone platform in the country.” There you have it. Those are some pretty staggering numbers, no? Hit the read link for the full report.

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  • darktanone

    Marketsbare is only Important if it’s also profitable. If it’s not, then it’s not sustainable. So far it has not been for Android makers. This lead maybe a blip or race to the red light as this was a weak quarter for Apple as anticipation for the iPhone 4 slowed sales. The next quarter will see an epic reversal. So enjoy the short celebration.

    • CrownSeven

      Not profitable eh? So you are telling me that all these phone manufacturers creating android phones are LOSING money? Well then mister apple fanboy, SOURCE PLEASE.

      • darktanone

        Go look at each company’s financials. Look at Motorola and HTC to start. Apple’s profits alone best theirs plus RIM, Nokia and a few others combined. Despite all those Droid ads, Motorola’s only sold 2.7 million smart phones combined. They were even offering buy one get one free deals at one point at Verizon.

      • Mark

        No source needed. Android OS is free, and the phones are subsidized by the carrier. The only one making money is the phone manufacturer. Now lets compare them all individually.
        The carriers make their money by mass volume, and gouging the public. If you think they give a shit about what OS your running on the phone you my friend are an idiot.

  • wanderer

    Here we go comparing android vs. iPhone again. It’s iOS vs. android, period. Now, take sales of the iPad, iPod touches, and iPhones and then graph it against android devices to be more legitimate about it. If you want to compare phone sales and usage then pick one android phone and match it against the iPhone. Will one android phone beat the iPhone? I don’t think so. Don’t get me wrong, android is a great alternative to iOS and competition is what sparks innovation anyway.

    Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone).

  • patrick

    @Darktanone

    Umm, Motorola posted profits of $220 mil, drop in the bucket compared to apple, but clearly better than their past performance. All thanks to a little robot and verizon.

    As far as comparing ios4 to android, you have to compare all phones. If apple doesn’t like it let them offer their tired ios4 to phone manufacturers and then we will see which one is more popular. I would still think Android only because they would not have to pay huge amounts of licensing fees to apple. As it is now they only need programmers and coders to put a suitable build on their phones. So, congratulations Google, word is getting out and I see more and more android phones in many differnt flavors, and that is definately a good thing.

    • Jarrett

      @ patrick,

      Why would Apple allow any of their software to run on someone else’s hardware?

  • wanderer

    @patrick, I really love android’s different flavors like: versions 1.6, 2.0,2.1 and so on depending on what phone you have.

    Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone).

    • Myetkt

      Your kidding right??? For almost 2 years I lived with my 3G wanting updates. Remember everyone bitching for the copy and paste update?? How about the MMS update. If you wanted to do these things, the same things you could do on a free phone from any service, you needed to jailbreak.. it got old. Jailbreak, update, Jailbreak update.. I can do everything I want without jailbreaking, rooting or anything else with the Android. Try it for a few weeks… I did and I wont go back

  • Kristen F

    The BBC has more detailed numbers from Canalys, here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10839034

    • MicroNix

      Wow, I didn’t realize that Android is within striking distance of RIM phones already. Not only did Android quickly fly by iPhone shipments, at the current pace Q3 will put it ahead of BB!

  • Len

    While all you children are fighting over Iphone vs Android, RIM continues to the lead you both. That’s while containing a supposedly old school operating system, crappy browser, bad UI, horrible memory, battery pulls, and no fun factor…. go figure.

    • MicroNix

      @Len

      Let me direct you to this chart:

      http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/mobile-OS-share-recent-2010.png

      Do you see what is going to happen next quarter if everything stays on track?

      Yeah, that’s right. Look at the RIM steady bleeding and look what is about to blow by it leaving it spinning in the rubble.

      Now what was your jaw jacking all about? BBs are not the “cool” thing to have with Corp Execs anymore. Its all Apple and Android. Sorry to burst your bubble.

      • Len

        @MicroNix, you must be one of those ignorant Americans everyone talks about. You do realize that your “source” is referring to US stats only, right?
        Show me a source of the worldwide market share trends for starters, then I might actually consider listening to what you have to say.

    • kilbasakid

      what will happen when android gets UMA? which is do out this year. sales will get better

  • FlyingPig

    “BBs are not the “cool” thing to have with Corp Execs anymore.”

    Only the ones that don’t need a smartphone for business. BB is still the best pure communication device. Not to mention secure. (And lowest TCO).

    However, Android OS is definitely better superficially than iPhone. Not sure most droids are as well put together, but the OS is cooler.

    The numbers don’t really tell the full story though. It’s easy to grow exponentially if you’re starting from zero.

    As for RIM, their focus has been on overseas markets which is why they’re still growing. And Nokia is still the global number 1 even though in the US they have little market share.

  • Rob

    So when running the comparison… Android is the OS, iPhone is the hardware…
    iOS to Android is 3 to 1.

  • sauerkraut

    Everyone realizes these are the Q2 results, right? Beating the iPhone in the last couple of months before their major annual product refresh is not exactly a huge achievement.

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