In the third quarter, sales of Mobile reached 440.5 million units, up 5.6% more than last year. Such data are contained in a report released today by Gartner.
Every fourth wireless device sold in the last quarter was a smart phone - this figure has not changed in three months, from 25 to 26%. To end users were sold 115 million smart phones, up 42% more than in the third quarter 2010, while 7% lower than in the second quarter this year.
Market leader with an index of 24 million shares was Samsung company . Sales of smart phones Apple iPhone $ 17 million, which is about 3 million less than in the previous quarter.
Models with Android OS took 52.5% of the market, doubling its share from 25.3%. In second place - smart phones with Symbian, which share for the year decreased from 36.3% to 16.9%.