IDC named the top five worldwide smartphone makers and Apple's iPhone is in the number one spot with 19.1% of the market. Apple is followed by Samsung(16.2%), Nokia(15.7%), BlackBerry(11.6%) and HTC (11%) according to IDC's Worldwide Mobile Phone Tracker.
There were 106.5 million phones shipped showing a 65.4% growth since last year.
Top Five Smartphone Vendors.
- Apple's success can be directly attributed to its distribution (more than 200 carriers in more than 200 countries), increased manufacturing capacity, and solid demand within emerging and developed markets from both consumers and business users.
- Samsung realized the largest year-over-year growth of any vendor among the top five, and key to its continued success was the global popularity of its flagship Galaxy S and S II smartphones.
- Nokia ceded the number one position for the first time in the history of IDC's Mobile Phone Tracker,.
- Research In Motion posted the lowest year-over-year growth of all the vendors in the top five, but still shipped enough BlackBerry smartphones to be the number four vendor worldwide.
- HTC marked another upward quarter, having launched and announced several new smartphones to the market. With a goal of shipping more than 13 million units in 3Q11, HTC is well poised to reach its goal of shipping 50 million units for the year.