Android takes third of mobile handset shipments in Q4

News Wireless Global 9 FEB 2013
Android takes third of mobile handset shipments in Q4

A third of all mobile phones shipped in the fourth quarter of 2012 ran Android, according to Canalys. Android took a 34 percent market share of the overall mobile phone market. Apple iOS took 11 percent. The period also saw Huawei, ZTE and Lenovo move into the top five smartphone vendors. The worldwide smartphone market grew by 37 percent to 438.1 million units last year, based on the 50+ countries assessed by the analyst firm.

Samsung saw smartphone sales grow 78 percent in to 62.9 million units in the fourth quarter for a 29 percent market share. Apple was second with 47.8 million units for a 22.1 percent share. Huawei, Lenovo, Yulong and ZTE saw shipments increase by triple-digit percentages. Huawei took third place for the first time by shipping 11.5 million smartphones in the quarter, driven by its success in China and the US, where it place fourth ahead of Huawei with its choice of low-cost LTE handsets. ZTE and Huawei did not take more than 5 percent of the US market, however.

Worldwide, Lenovo took fifth place by shipping 9.5 million units, up 216 percent on the year-earlier period, for a 4.4 percent market share as Sony dropped out of the top five. Canalys analyst Jessica Kwee writes that 98 percent of Lenovo’s sales were in China, which might lead it to expand abroad through acquisition, the way Lenovo did in PCs, referring to speculation that BlackBerry could be a target.

By operating system, Android had a 69.2 percent smartphone share in the quarter, while iOS rose sequentially to 22.1 percent from 15 percent thanks to the iPhone 5. BlackBerry and Windows Phone’s shares were flat sequentially at 3.5 and 2.4 percent, respectively, and Nokia’s stood at 1.5 percent.  

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