The most notable changes in the period were a decrease of 2.5 percent manufacturer market share by Apple an increase of 4.3 percent by Samsung LG and Motorola overtook HTC as the number three and four U.S.
In Q2 2013, Apple had 40 percent of the market Samsung had 24.7 percent (24 percent Android and 0.7 percent Windows Phone) HTC had 9.4 percent (9 percent Android and 0.4 percent Windows Phone) Motorola 9 percent LG 7 percent RIM/BlackBerry 3 percent "Others" 2 percent Nokia 1.2 percent and Huawei had 1 percent of the market, according to Nielsen. Apple led the pack with 42.5 percent of the market Samsung has 29 percent (28.7 percent Android and 0.3 percent Windows Phone) LG has 7 percent Motorola 6.8 percent HTC 6.1 percent (5.7 percent Android and 0.4 percent Windows Phone) BlackBerry has 2 percent Nokia 2 percent and "Others" make up the remaining 3.4 percent of the market, according to Nielsen. So lets take a look at the country-wise market share trends from various research reports (primarily Gartner, Kantar Worldpanel. While I initially intended to use the post as a reference for my research, it became so popular that I decided to make it a quarterly or semi-annual feature. smartphone market share numbers based on manufacturers. About 5 months ago, I posted an article collating smartphone market share trends from around the world.
In other words, Android accounted for 75 of entire Smartphones’ sales in Q3 2012. So the most notable changes were a 2 percent growth in share by iOS and the transfer of 1 percent of the market from BlackBerry to Windows Phone. In Q3 2012, 3 out of every 4 Smartphones sold were powered by Android mobile OS.