Android phones leapfrog iPhones worldwide

Aug 17, 2010 by Dirk Singer

A watch-out to those of us living in an iPhone bubble comes from Gartner, which has published data about the growth of mobile phone sales worldwide.

The global mobile market continues to grow, up 13.8% in Q2, but Android phones are now more popular than iPhones with a market share of 17.2% vs 14.2%.   A year ago, iPhones had 13% of the smartphone market compared to 1.8% for the then still relatively new Android platform.

One in five (19%) phones sold worldwide are now smartphones, an increase of 50.5% compared to the same time last year.   That smartphone figure is of course almost certainly higher if you look at different areas of the world.   According to Comscore in April, 22.6% of mobile users in the big five European Union countries use smartphones.

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