According to a report made by Gartner, Inc. the worldwide mobile phone sales to users in 2009 was close to 1.211 billion, which is not a lot when comparing to the previous year of 2008. Actually it is worse, because it noticed a decline of 0,9% when comparing the 2 years.

On the other hand, the 4th quarter of 2009 was pretty good in terms of sales, because when comparing to 2008 the increase was a lot – 8,3%.

Carolina Milanesi of Gartner, comments:

In 2009, smartphone-focused vendors like Apple and Research In Motion (RIM) successfully captured market share from other larger device producers, controlling 14.4 and 19.9 per cent of the worldwide smartphone market, respectively.

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