paidcontent reporting:
If we accept that the modern mobile computing
movement kicked off in 2007 with the launch of the iPhone, than 2011
was easily the most pivotal year we’ve yet seen. Here are five numbers
that illustrate just how eventful a year it was.
324 million: The number of smartphones sold worldwide through three quarters of 2011 (according to Gartner),
and feel free to tack on another 120 million or so to account for the
fourth quarter. That’s a 63 percent increase compared to the same period
in 2010. And amazingly, that’s still only about a quarter of mobile
phone sales in general, which underscores just how much growth remains
in this industry as component costs decline and wireless networks
improve.
194 percent: The growth in Android smartphones
worldwide from the third quarter of 2010 to the same period this year.
Android’s growth has been nothing short of phenomenal, and while the
aging Symbian remains the world’s most widely used mobile operating
system Android has lived up to everything Google (NSDQ: GOOG) ever hoped it would in helping to ensure that one company—Apple—would not dominate the modern mobile market.
33.62 billion: The market value shed by Research in Motion (NSDQ: RIMM) during 2011, the year in which it became clear that the company has no clue
how to move beyond the BlackBerry that sustained its business for so
long until the iPhone made it look pedestrian. At year’s end, RIM had
once again delayed a next-generation product while begging for more
time, and time is most assuredly not on its side...
http://paidcontent.org/article/419-highlights-of-2011-a-crazy-year-in-mobile-by-the-numbers/
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