Gartner Q2 2011 Mobile Devices Sales Worldwide

Gartner Says Sales of Mobile Devices in Second Quarter of

2011 Grew 16.5 Percent Year-on-Year; Smartphone Sales Grew 74 Percent

ZTE Became Fifth-Largest Mobile Phone Manufacturer and RIM Dropped to No. 6 Egham, UK, 11 August 2011 — Worldwide sales of mobile devices to end users totaled 428.7 million units in the second quarter of 2011, a 16.5 percent increase from the second quarter of 2010, according to Gartner, Inc. (see Table 1). The channel built up stock at the end of the first quarter of 2011 in preparation of possible component shortages following the Japanese earthquake. As a result, sell-in demand slowed in the second quarter of 2011 to 421.1 million units, a 4.4 percent decrease from the previous quarter. Sales of smartphones were up 74 percent year-on-year and accounted for 25 percent of overall sales in the second quarter of 2011, up from 17 percent in the second quarter of 2010. “Smartphone sales continued to rise at the expense of feature phones,” said Roberta Cozza, principal research analyst at Gartner. “Consumers in mature markets are choosing entrylevel and midrange Android smartphones over feature phones, partly due to carriers’ and manufacturers’ promotions." However, replacement sales in Western Europe showed signs of fatigue as smartphone sales declined quarter-on-quarter.

Table 1 Worldwide Mobile Device Sales to End Users by Vendor in 2Q11 (Thousands of Units)

Vendor

2Q11 Units

Nokia 97,869.3 Samsung 69,827.6 LG 24,420.8 Apple 19,628.8 ZTE 13,070.2 Research In 12,652.3 Motion HTC 11,016.1 Motorola 10,221.4 Huawei 9,026.1 Device Sony 7,266.5 Ericsson Others 153,662.1 Total 428,661.2

Source: Gartner (August 2011)

2Q11 2Q10 Market Units Share (%) 22.8 111,473.7 16.3 65,328.2 5.7 29,366.7 4.6 8,743.0 3.0 6,730.6 3.0 11,628.8 2.6 2.4 2.1 1.7 5,908.8 9,109.4 5,276.4 11,008.5

2Q10 Market Share (%) 30.3 17.8 8.0 2.4 1.8 3.2 1.6 2.5 1.4 3.0 28.1 100.0

35.8 103,412.6 100.0 367,986.7

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