Today, T-Mobile said that it had sold 1 million Android phones in the U.S. since the G1′s launch in October 2008. Reaching 1 million units in six months isn’t terrible, says PC World, but the iPhone has sold roughly four times that amount in the same time.
Apple doesn’t explicitly break out US sales. But AT&T in the U.S. says they activated a total of 3.5 million iPhones in the last two quarters. PC World estimates Apple sold 4 million during that period.
AdMob says Apple has sold a total of 30 million combined iPhones and iPod touches. Their data suggests that about 75 percent of those are sold in the US with two-thirds of the combined iPhones and iPod touches using the mobile Web or applications. That results in a total of 15 million mobile Web users for Apple in the US. Give or take.
On September 10, 2007, just 74 days after the device’s launch, Apple announced its millionth $400 Edge-based iPhone sold, with 1 million $199 3G iPhones sold in its first weekend alone, in mid-July, 2008. In the first two quarters of the original iPhone’s availability, Apple sold about 3.7 million iPhones, with about 3 million in the U.S.
The iPhone store hit one billion downloads today, April 23rd, some 9 months and 12 days since it opened. The Android Market has only been accepting priced applications since mid February, 2009 while the iPhone store opened in July, 2008.
Apple, with roughly 36% of the global mobile web browsing market and almost 50% in the U.S. alone, wins the smart phone top spot handily (with a first to market advantage). Rim has 22% of the market, Microsoft 11%, while Android and Palm come in at 4th and 5th respectively with a 6% share. Nokia, in the United States, has only a 1% share of the smartphone market.
AdMob say Android now owns about 6 percent of the U.S. smartphone market as measured by operating systems. Android has gained one percentage point of market share in the U.S. each month this year so far, creeping from 4 percent in January to 5 percent in February and 6 percent in March. More Android platforms and carriers may be anticipated in the future, but the iPhone seems pretty secure as the smartphone to beat.
How did Nokia’s Symbian OS and Microsoft’s Windows Mobile platforms perform globally? In March, Symbian earned 38 percent and Windows Mobile 6 percent of the smartphone web requests; that’s down from 44 percent and 8 percent in January. Apple and RIM smartphone web requests accounted for 37 percent and 11 percent of traffic respectively in March.
Globally, mobile subscriptions are expected to reach 4.3 billion in 2009 and to grow to nearly 5.4 billion by 2013, says ABI Research.
The number of smartphone users, currently about 25 million (mostly Apple iPhones), is relatively tiny, but is expected to increase four-fold by 2013, according to market researcher, In-Stat. Apple’s iPhone applications store keeps growing, too. It now tops 25,000 applications.
With the Android smartphone and Palm’s Pre smartphone (set to debut this summer), In-Stat expects the number of users accessing mobile applications stores with their smartphones to reach nearly one-third, or 100 million, of all smartphone users.
In-Stat says 30% of subscriptions will be with third or fourth generation technology within the next five years. This is compared to 11% of subscriptions on 3G at the end of 2008.
Smartphone sales in North America grew 69 per cent in 2008, says Gartner. While sales will grow at a slower pace, the market will be driven by support from operators in the region aggressively pushing data plans. Smartphones will also see increased competition from full-featured enhanced phones that may offer a full qwerty keyboard. These devices offer much of the functionality of a smartphone, but at a lower price.
But ABI Research estimates that worldwide handset shipments will fall by at least 8% in 2009, and that flat growth in 2010 is the best the market will deliver.
Gizmodo compares the iPhone App Store, Android Market, Blackberry App World, Windows Mobile Marketplace, Palm App Catalog and Nokia Ovi Store.
Handmark has cross platform Mobile Store software, which helps others launch an app store using Handmark’s library of content and customizable user interface to launch their own native mobile store full of mobile games, apps, ringtones, themes and more. Similar services are available from Handango and GetJar.
Portland-based mobile developers include Avatron Software, Subatomic Studios, Small Society, Spotlight Mobile, Pheedyou, Critical Path Software, Cloud Four, Jive Software and Platial among others.
Innotech’s Mobile Platforms Panel in Portland yesterday, brought together (left to right) @grigs (moderator), Jon Maroney (Handmark), @harrisja (Journalist), @ravenme (iPhone), @jasonmauer (WindowsMobile) and @donpdonp (Android).
Jason Grigsby, of Mobile Portland, explains The Upcoming Mobile Tsunami in the presentation below.
Some 11.7 million netbooks were sold in 2008 according to Gartner, with global netbooks sales expected to double in 2009 to 21 million units and reach 30 million units in 2010.
A recent ABI Research study projected that processors for MIDs would be dominated by ARM and Atom, with the Intel (and now Linux Foundation) sponsored Moblin leading with 42 percent. In April 2009 Intel turned Moblin over to Linux Foundation. Next in line would come Nokia’s open source Maemo, which runs on Nokia’s Internet Tablets, including the N810. The LiMo Foundation’s mobile-phone oriented LiMo Platform was pegged as coming in third in MID software. Android MIDs and netbooks will also get a piece of that pie. ABI Research believes that 2012 will see the tipping-point at which netbooks running Linux-based and mobile operating systems outnumber those running Windows XP.
The first Netbook running Android is expected to be available in the next three months and cost about $250, according to a Computerworld report. ARM expects to see “six to 10 ARM-based netbooks this year, starting in Q3.”
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