Smartphone Platform Winners & Losers According to Gartner

You may have read other blogs who used Gartner’s data to trumpet headlines like “Android market share increases 600%”. And, that is true. Android marketshare, as measured by Gartner, jumped from 1.6% to 9.6% when comparing the first quarter of 2009 to the first quarter of 2010. webOS, by contast, doesn’t even appear in the list (unless you consider it part of “Other OSs”).

Gartner Says Worldwide Mobile Phone Sales Grew 17 Per Cent in First Quarter 2010

I took the data from Table 2 of Gartner’s press release and created the chart you see above.

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