“Global smartphone shipments for 2011 will reach 462 million units, rising 60% from the 288 million shipped in 2010, according to Digitimes Research. Apple is expected to overtake Nokia as the top ranking vendor in terms of shipment volume in 2011, while Huawei Technologies will enjoy robust growth in shipments enabling the China-based company to close its gap with Sony Ericsson and Motorola,” Luke Lin reports for DigiTimes.
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“Apple’s smartphone shipments are projected to top 86.4 million units in 2011, up 82% from 47.5 million units in 2010,” Lin reports. “In contrast, Nokia’s smartphone shipments in 2011 will decline to 74.4 million units from over 100 million in 2010, said Luke Lin, analyst for Digitimes Research.”
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Um… what’s a Nokia?
Those Gooble activation numbers must be fake.
I travel always between the US and South America.
I NEVER see ANY Android phones! iPhone everywhere and Crackberries…
Obviously this is a description of a Smartphone that is rather liberal.
Partial reporting by MDN. The esteemed “Others” will grown 532%
Yes, and 518% will be feature phones running Java-er I mean Android. But, not just any old Android but a forked version, incapatable with anything Google including the Android Market.
So, what they really will be is a fork of a fork of Java, running the Safari-er I mean Chrome browser. OK then, a Webkit browser pretending to be a Smartphone and sold for $99. Or, perhaps BOGO or 2 or 3.
I hope that clears it up for you.
I am guessing 100M iPhones for Apple in 2012.
I still will never buy an iPhone until I can connect it to whichever service provider I want.