Smartphone sales doubled in Q3, Android boomed. Worldwide smartphone sales almost doubled to 80.5 million units in this year's third quarter, with Android coming from nowhere to take 25.5% of the market with 20.5m sales, according to Gartner. In the same quarter last year, smartphone sales were 41.1m units, and Android sold 1.4m units for a market share of 3.5%. Android has now overtaken Apple's iPhone and looks likely to overtake the market leader, Symbian. In 21010 Q3, Gartner credits Symbian with 29.5m units and a market share of 36.6%, down 8 percentage points on last year. Apple's iOS has overtaken RIM's BlackBerry to take third place. Gartner has iOS with 13.5m sales for a market share of 16.7% -- fractionally down on last year -- ahead of BlackBerry's 11.9m units and market share of 14.8%, down almost 6 points.
Sales of Windows Mobile smartphones fell from 3.26m to 2.25m units and market share collapsed from 7.9% to 2.8% while Microsoft prepared to abandon the system for Windows Phone 7. Tweetlection | Sense Internet. The top 100 sites on the internet. Explore this interactive graphic to find out which are the biggest sites on the internet, as measured by the Nielsen company. This feature is part of SuperPower, a season of programmes exploring the power of the internet.
About this data The data used to generate the interactive treemap visualisation were collected by the Nielsen company and covers the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Brazil, US and Australia. The figures represent unique users for the month of January 2010. The categories - such as retail, social networks, search/portal - were defined by the BBC. The maps were produced using the Prefuse Flare software, developed by the University of California Berkeley. Did you find this graphic useful? Intelligence - Robin Goad - UK. E-Mail Usage - Death. January 20, 2011 Email Evolution: Web-based Email Shows Signs of Decline in the U.S. While Mobile Email Usage on the Rise Growing Number of Communication Channels Prompts Shift in Consumers’ Email Behavior RESTON, VA, January 20, 2011 - comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released results from a study on U.S. consumers’ evolving email behaviors using data from its comScore Media Metrix and MobiLens services.
The study found that in November 2010, the number of visitors to web-based email sites declined 6 percent compared to the previous year, while email engagement declined at an even greater rate. During the same time period, the number of users accessing email via their mobile devices grew by 36 percent as an increasingly complex digital environment influenced consumers’ communication habits. Web-based Email Declines, Young Users Show Most Dramatic Decrease in Usage *Web-based email does not include email applications such as Outlook, etc.