Guest midnight Posted August 4, 2004 Report Share Posted August 4, 2004 Over at Infosync, they are reporting that despite a worldwide slump in mobile device sales in 2003, sales this year have increased..... A new market report by Canalys claims a 45% increase in the sale of mobile devices between second quarter 2003 and second quarter 2004, with both data-centric and voice-centric devices showing strong growth. However, much of that growth is a rebound after an overall worldwide decline in handheld sales in 2003.Not only that, but on an OS level, Microsoft has now overtaken Palm to move into 2nd place (unsurprisingly, Symbian is in first place)... From an OS standpoint, Symbian has pushed into first place with 41% of sales, due in part of course to Nokia's strong smartphone showing. Microsoft's percentage of the market held fairly constant at about 22%, but PalmSource saw its share of the market drop from 30.9% last year to 22.5% this year, allowing Microsoft's 22.9% to just barely squeeze into second place. Coming in a distant fourth, GNU/Linux nearly doubled its shipments in the past year bringing the Free Software OS up to 1.9% of the worldwide market with 114,720 devices shipped in second quarter of 2004. More about this article can be found here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stclive Posted September 26, 2004 Report Share Posted September 26, 2004 good to hear SP on the rise Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stclive Posted September 26, 2004 Report Share Posted September 26, 2004 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3602718.stm :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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