Now that everyone has published their Q1 2011 financial results it’s time for the experts to step in and run the numbers and feed us with fancy statistics and pie charts that make fanbois all across the internet go mad. Analysts at Canalys say that 101 million smartphones shipped during the first 3 months of this year, which is a huge 83% increase from the 55.2 million that shipped in Q1 2010. Approximately 35.7 million of those ran Android, giving Google’s barely 2.5 year old operating system a 35% share of the smartphone market. How did Nokia do with Symbian? They shipped only 24.2 million smartphones, giving them 24% of the market, down from their 39% share in the same quarter just 1 year ago. In terms of where these 101 million devices sold, roughly 37% of them went to the Asian Pacific region (APAC), 32% went to Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), 24% went to North America, and 6% went to Latin America. Of Nokia’s 24.2 million smartphones, 53% went to the Asian Pacific region, marking the first time that they sold more smartphones to that part of the world than EMEA.
It goes without saying that there’s nothing that can slow Google down, except for maybe a cheap iPhone. We’re crossing our fingers that a GSM only iPhone comes out this year or 2012 the latest. How hard can it be to shove a quadband GSM/EDGE radio inside an iPod touch, slash the amount of onboard memory, and make the camera appallingly bad, all for the sake of gaining some market share? Anyway, we’re also looking forward to what Google has to show off with Ice Cream Sandwich, their next version of Android, that will hopefully be showed off at Google I/O later this month.
Oh and for all you Samsung Bada fans out there, 3.5 million devices shipped in Q1 with that OS onboard, beating Windows Phone by over 1 million units.