mocoNews – Report: Android Devices Set To Outsell iPhones By 2012; Open Handsets To Succeed
Informa Telecoms & Media has released a report saying that Android smartphone sales will outstrip iPhone sales by 2012, based on the idea that “open” handsets will do better than proprietary systems. For the same reason Informa predicts that Symbian’s decline?its share of the smartphone market was 49 percent last year, down from 65 percent the year before?will reverse, with Symbian’s switch to open source helping it maintain its leadership over Android and MS for the next few years reports Silicon.com. “In 2008 almost 162 million smartphones were sold, according to Informa, surpassing laptop sales for the first time. The analyst forecasts smartphone penetration will reach 13.5 per cent of new handsets sold this year but is set to treble by 2013 – to well over a third (38 per cent) of mobile devices.”
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