As a very brief follow up to Novembers post on smartphone trends worldwide I decided to revisit the stats.

Using Statcounter again to look at the last 6 months of mobile OS data worldwide reveals :-

1) Android has overtaken Blackberry marketshare based on monitored web traffic. Note this is different to number of handsets in use or new sales.

2) Symbian handsets are still very popular worldwide and really aren’t changing or gaining ground as fast as some of the others.

3) iOS e.g iPhone and iPad devices have actually lost ground over the past 6 months. Most likely due to the sheer growth of Android smartphones in the mid market handset range.

4) Microsoft Windows mobile 7 handsets have not yet started to register on Statscounters stats, this is on a par with the amount of marketshare I expected these phones to have. There has been no significant change in traffic coming from “other” handsets either so windows 7 mobile isn’t creeping up unnoticed.

Source: StatCounter Global Stats – Mobile OS Market Share

 

Are you due a new handset soon? What are you anticipating buying and what’s drawing you to that platform?