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title: "Mobile Web: Smart Phone Sales Up 24% From Last Year"
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# [Mobile Web: Smart Phone Sales Up 24% From Last Year](https://www.ironpaper.com/current/2010/02/mobile-web-smart-phone-sales-up-24-from-last-year)

 Written by [Ironpaper](https://www.ironpaper.com/current/author/admin) | Feb 23, 2010 9:57:22 PM

The mobile phone industry is booming. Smart phone sales to end users grew 41% from Q4 of 2008 to Q4 of 2009. As a year to year comparison from 2008 to 2009, smart phone sales grew 24% to 172.4 million units.

The iPhone share almost doubled. The iPhone still trails behind Nokia’s Symbian-powered smartphones (#1).

**Garner: source data****  
****Worldwide Smartphone Sales to End Users by Operating System in 2009 (Thousands of Units)**

| **Company** | **2009**** Units** | **2009 Market Share (%)** | **2008**** Units** | **2008 Market Share (%)** |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Symbian | 80,878.6 | 46.9 | 72,933.5 | 52.4 |
| Research In Motion | 34,346.6 | 19.9 | 23,149.0 | 16.6 |
| iPhone OS | 24,889.8 | 14.4 | 11,417.5 | 8.2 |
| Microsoft Windows Mobile | 15,027.6 | 8.7 | 16,498.1 | 11.8 |
| Linux | 8,126.5 | 4.7 | 10,622.4 | 7.6 |
| Android | 6,798.4 | 3.9 | 640.5 | 0.5 |
| WebOS | 1,193.2 | 0.7 | NA | NA |
| Other OSs | 1,112.4 | 0.6 | 4,026.9 | 2.9 |
| **Total** | **172,373.1** | **100.0** | **139,287.9** | **100.0** |

Source: Gartner (February 2010)

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