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Most recently, it has discussed Tablet sales statistics for the second quarter. Now we will focus on smartphones.

The same agency, IDC conducted a monitoring of the global market, then it is possible to conclude that the gradual operating system Android more niches.

So, if in the second quarter of last year Smartphones Android order was shipped 50.4 million units in the second quarter of this figure are 104.8 million.Annual increases of 106.5%.

By comparison, Apple Q2'11 was finished with the exponent 20.4 million this year - 26 million. The annual growth is of 27.5%.

Operating system          Q2'12 Shipped Q2'12 Market Share    Q2'11 was shipped       Q2'11 Market Share    Annual variation

Android            104.8   68.1%  50.8     46.9%  106.5%

iOS      26.0     16.9%  20.4     18.8%  27.5%

Blackberry OS 7.4       4.8%    12.5     11.5%  -40.9%

Symbian           6.8       4.4%    18.3     16.9%  -62.9%

Windows Phone 7        5.4       3.5%    2.5       2.3%    115.3%

Linux    3.5       2.3%    3.3       3.0%    6.3%

Others  0.1       0.1%    0.6       0.5%    -80.0%

In total  154.0   100%   108.3   100%   42.2%

Certainly the fact that the increase observed in one and the other platforms, says a steady demand for Soup on the basis of these operating systems. This growth comes amid a gradual fall in demand for Blackberry OS, and Symbian, which lost for the year 40.9% and 62.9% , respectively.

Another operating system, which showed a positive annual rate, was the Windows Phone 7 / Windows Mobile. During Q2'11 was shipped just 2.5 million devisor on this platform, for Q2'12, this figure had risen to 5.4 million. Thus, an increase is of 115.3%.

At the end of the second quarter of 2012 Android already owns 68.14% of the world smartphone market, 16.9% iOS, BlackBerry OS 4.8%, 4.4% Symbian, Windows Phone 7 has got 3.5% . Output in September to market new smartphone from Apple to pull a little share of the total weight of the iPhone. Although the comparison of one phone, though in several models with a motley army of gadgets on Android, not entirely correct. That is, if analysts have compared the performance of sales iPhone 4S and Samsung Galaxy S II, appeared in 2011, it would be very interesting.