According to market research firm Canalys, there are in 2011 more smartphones were sold than pc’s, something that has not previously occurred. Several smartphonefabrikanten posted quarterly results with record sales in the past year.
Canalys claims on the basis of his figures that there are almost a half a billion smartphones were sold in 2011, while pc sales remained stuck on 414,6 million pieces. Compared with 2010 there were last year, up 62.5 percent, more smartphones sold, where the number of sold pc’s, where tablets were counted, with only 14.8 percent increased.
Although it is the first time that the sales of smartphones of pc’s exceeds, this does not come as a surprise. Several smartphonefabrikanten, particularly Apple and Samsung, vomiting last year’s sales records with smartphoneverkopen. Apple sold lots of iPhones, while Samsung is making for its Galaxy devices to Android had to have it.
According to Canalys running of the sold smartphones almost half of it on Android. Apple’s iOS is a distance second place with a percentage of 19.1 percent. Symbian fell to the third place by 16.4 percent, while BlackBerry follows with a percentage of 10.4 percent.
Previously calculated Tweakers.net all that Samsung is the manufacturer that in 2011 the majority of smartphones sold: with about 110 million continued to be the Korean manufacturer Apple, which is about 93 million iPhones sold. These figures are from the quarterly financial statements of both companies, and neighborhoods, thereby somewhat from estimates provided by analysts are given.