Smartphones are 15.4% of phone shipments
February 20th, 2010
According to IDC, the market research company, vendors shipped a total of 54.5 million units in the fourth quarter of 2009, up 39.0% from the same quarter a year ago. For the full year, vendors shipped a total of 174.2 million units in 2009, up 15.1% from the 151.4 million units in 2008. Converged mobile devices accounted for 15.4% of all mobile phones shipped in 2009, up slightly from 12.7% in 2008.
These figures are similar to IDC’s competitor Strategy Analytics that acknowledges 173.8 million units in 2009 and 53 million in the fourth quarter alone.
