Gartner: Symbian Still Outsold Android In Fourth Quarter 2010

Different day, different market research organisation, different statistics. Contrary to Canalys’ recent report which stated that Android shipments in the last quarter of last year exceeded Symbian’s shipments, Gartner saysthat when legacy Symbian devices from other manufacturers such as Fujitsu, Sharp and Sony Ericsson are included, Symbian still outsold Android, but just barely.

Company	2010 Units	2010 Market Share (%)	2009 Units	2009 Market Share (%)
Symbian	111,576.7	37.6	80,878.3	46.9
Android	67,224.5	22.7	6,798.4	3.9
Research In Motion	47,451.6	16.0	34,346.6	19.9
iOS	46,598.3	15.7	24,889.7	14.4
Microsoft	12,378.2	4.2	15,031.0	8.7
Other Oss	11417.4	3.8	10432.1	6.1
Total	296,646.6	100.0	172,376.1	100.0

Source: Gartner, February 2011.

Symbian’s market share dropped at an alarming rate though – from 46.9% in 2009, it now only has 37.6% of the smartphone market – hence the announcement yesterday about the new Nokia-Microsoft alliance.  Let’s see what the table looks like in a year’s time.

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