Global Market for Smartphones Rising

UK research firm Canalys yesterday announced market numbers for Q2, 2005 that showed the continuing strong demand for smart mobile devices worldwide. Highlights of the report include:

Overall global shipments of smart mobile devices up 105% year on year in Q2 2005

Converged devices up 186%, handhelds down 14%

Nokia’s share grew to 55%, with it shipping 6.7 million smart phones

Palm retains second place as its smart phones grew more than 200%, but handhelds fell 32%

RIM, in third, ships almost 900,000 converged devices, on target for its first million-unit quarter

Nokia's 54.9 percent share of the worldwide smart mobile device market roughly translates into Symbian easily leading the mobile OS platform market with a 62.8 percent share followed by Microsoft in a distant second at 15.9 percent and PalmSource with slightly less than a 10 percent share.

via Canalys