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More Smartphone Growth
February 16th, 2010Smartphone growth
February 16th, 2010December 2009 Admob Mobile Metrics Report
February 3rd, 2010


North America Handsets

U.S. Handsets



From: http://metrics.admob.com/2010/01/december-2009-mobile-metrics-report/ full report at http://metrics.admob.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/AdMob-Mobile-Metrics-Dec-09.pdf
Smartphone Numbers
January 26th, 2010- US cellphone users (about 285 million subscriptions) represent only 7% of the global subscriber base of 4.6 Billion.
- While Americans are now getting heavily into smartphones, Forrester.reported that the total installed base of smartphones in the USA is only 17%. The EU projects that for the EU region, smartphones will be half of all phones this year.
- A couple of years ago, the Symbian operating system was owned across several giant handset makers (Nokia part owned with SonyEricsson, Samsung, Motorola etc) and had over 60% market share. Now being only Nokia’s owned operating system, its installed base is about 50% of the world’s smartphones and currently sell a little over 40% of the world’s smartphones.
- 75% of American business/enterprise smartphones are Blackberries (says Ostermann survey in 2009)
- Today one in five smartphones sold – actually already 21% by the third quarter of 2009 – was a Blackberry. Remember that only 17% of smartphones are Apple iPhones.
- A survey by TBI Research in 2009 found that 80% of US businesses refuse to have more than one operating system for smartphones – and in most cases that is now the Blackberry.
- Out of all iPhones ever sold, 43% have been activated by AT&T
- HTC is the fourth largest smartphone maker with about 5% of the market.
- HTC CEO said in 2009 that 80% of all WinMo phones ever made, were manufactured by HTC.
- Samsung had previously held something like 3% market share in smartphones, but – in feature phones with touch screens – they already outsell the iPhone.
- Motorola’s global handset market share has been in total freefall for years – they have gone from 22% to 5% in three years.
- Palm sells only about 800,000 smartphones per year
Admob Android Usage Stats
January 4th, 2010- Rapid growth: Worldwide requests from Android devices increased 97% from October to December. AdMob received over 1 billion ad requests from Android devices in Dec 09.
- Increased manufacturer diversity: In October, 98% of requests came from HTC devices. In December, 56% of requests were from HTC devices, 39% from Motorola devices, and 5% from Samsung.
- Increased device diversity: In December, 7 devices generated more than 3% of requests each: the Motorola Droid, HTC Dream, HTC Magic, HTC Hero, Motorola CLIQ, HTC Droid Eris, and the Samsung Moment. This is up from only 3 devices in October (HTC Dream, HTC Magic, and HTC Hero).
- Droid Invasion: The Motorola Droid is already the leading Android handset in the AdMob network and generated 30% of requests in December.
- US leads Android adoption: 90% of Android traffic was in the US in December, up from 84% in October. Top countries by requests are the US, UK, Germany, France, and Canada, respectively.

From: http://metrics.admob.com/2010/01/metrics-update-android/
Download Share Across Leading Android Devices
January 4th, 2010T-Mobile: Android Stats
November 12th, 2009- Around 50% of myTouch users launch the Market app each day
- 80% of myTouch users launch the browser once a day, and roughly 66% launch it more than once a day
- More than 40% of myTouch users access social sites multiple times each day
- Roughly half of myTouch owners say they have “completely customized” their handsets, though that term seems a bit ambiguous








