The second quarter of 2012 the mobile phone market according to Gartner

The results of the second quarter of this year, summed up the research firm Gartner, which published data on both the spread of mobile operating systems, and for individual handset manufacturers. In general, it was repeated information already known to the situation - Android and iOS dominate the appearance of prejudging the OS market, but Samsung and Apple are fighting among themselves, while the continuing fall in Nokia. Remarkably, the total smartphone sales for the quarter increased by 42.7%; But while sales of conventional phones down so that the overall volume of sales over the same period last year decreased by 2.3% and amounted to "only" 419 million units. Despite this explosive growth, smart phones are still far from becoming the most widespread devices in the market - they account for about one-third of all sales. And here is the definition of the dominant companies in this market is simple - 83% of smartphone sales this Samsung and Apple. For Samsung, Gartner defines as an exceptionally good quarter - 45.6 million smartphones Galaxy, more than half of all sales of Android-smartphone, and Samsung Galaxy S III leader in the absolute number of units sold. It is noted that the restriction is not associated with the demand, and the impossibility of its satisfaction at the current level of production. At the same time noted that sales of its iPhone competitor fell slightly (by 12.6% compared with the previous quarter), as most buyers waiting for the iPhone 5. As for other manufacturers and platforms, and there the situation is not very attractive. Symbian has lost 16.2% in annual comparison, and the BlackBerry - 6,5% and now both of these platforms reside at the level of 5-6% of total sales. Saving Nokia with the help of Windows Phone as long as not too much - the OS (not just Nokia smartphones on it) is 2.7% of the market. For comparison, the project is not the best Samsung, Bada phones are sold on the platform at exactly the same amount. At the same time, Nokia continues to hold the second place, largely due to the fact that initially were too far apart from all competitors Samsung.