it seems to be difficult - for whatever reason - to find statistics that aren't at least 3-6 months old.

the most recent thing i could find was articles that say the iPhones market share dropped from 18% (Q3/09) to 16% in Q4/09. that seemed to be worth a few headlines. none of these iphone-centric articles give numbers about other operating systems in Q4, though.


again, as always, i'd like to question the term "smartphone". all these statistics count smartphones and marketshare in the smartphone market, but nobody i ask can define the term "smartphone" anymore. my opinion is that smartphone was a valid category some years ago, but now that even cheap S40-based phones have a lot in common with S60-based "smartphones", i really doubt the usefulness of the category when doing market research.