Mobile Phone Sales Explode: Five Findings

10.11.2010

Windows Mobile 6.5 was not terribly popular

While smartphone sales increased for Symbian, Android, Blackberry, and the iPhone, Windows phones took a dive in both unit sales and market share. That's probably because, up until this week, Microsoft was hawking Windows Mobile 6.5--we expect next year's number to look a little different, now that Microsoft has entered into the competition.

What happened to WebOS?

You know the outlook is bleak for HP and Palm's WebOS when it doesn't even have its own category in . This means it's either part of the "Linux" category (with 2.1 percent market share), or the "Other" category (with 1.5 percent of the market share). HP had better have more ambitious plans than the if it hopes to resurrect WebOS as a viable smartphone OS competitor.