Smart Phone Sales to Grow 49% in 2011

The worldwide smart phone market is expected to grow 49 percent in 2011 as more consumers and enterprise users turn in their feature phones for smartphones with more advanced features, according to International Data Corporation.

Smart phone vendors will ship more than 450 million smartphones in 2011 compared to the 303.4 million units shipped in 2010, IDC predicts, growing four times faster than the overall mobile phone market. None of those predictions will come as a surprise.

Operating System	2011 Market Share		2015 Market Share		2011-2015 CAGR
Android	39.5%	45.4%		23.8%
BlackBerry	14.9%	13.7%		17.1%
iOS	15.7%	15.3%		18.8%
Symbian	20.9%	0.2%		-65.0%
Windows Phone 7/Windows Mobile	5.5%	20.9%		67.1%
Others	3.5%	4.6%		28.0%
Total	100.0%	100.0%		19.6%

IDC - Press Release