Gartner: phone sales in the third quarter declined by 3%

Analyst firm Gartner presented its vision mobile phone market in the third quarter of 2012. According to the agency, on the whole mobile retail market in the world fell by 3.1%. However, this in no way affected sales of smartphones, which grew by almost 47%. The total number of units sold is estimated at 428 million units. Of these, 39.6% were smartphones, which is 46.9% more than in the third quarter of 2011. All smartphones sold 169.2 million units, almost half (46.5%) of which were released by Samsung and Apple. The company Nokia, last year ranked third, fell back to seventh. Some of the leading companies in the market of smartphones includes RIM and HTC. In general the supply of devices on the market, radical changes have occurred: the leader Samsung (98 million units), followed by Nokia (82 million) and Apple (23,5 million). While Nokia continues to show a decline in sales not only smartphones, but phones. As regards the distribution of mobile operating systems, it is all too intact. In the first place the OS Android, which accounted for 72.4% of all smart phones. IOS him with 13.9%. At the same time the popularity of the OS from Apple and all others not only can not be compared with Android, but also reduced, with the exception of Bada and Microsoft. In the third quarter of 2011, the share of iOS accounted for 15%. It should be noted that Windows Phone sales in the quarter were not too successful: 4 million units and 2.4% market share. This is more than 1.5% a year earlier, but hardly reassuring company Nokia, Symbian OS is in the third quarter of 2011 was 16.9%, and only 2.6% of the current.