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IDC has published a new report on the supply of and participation in the mobile device market – this time divided into operating systems. Headlamp has not changed, but jumped to third place Windows Phone, ahead of BlackBerry.

compared to the previous year in the first quarter of 2013 to hit stores by 41.6% more smartphones – 216.2 million units. recorded the largest increase Android’s most popular – to hit stores 162 million units (previous year 90.3) and now he has 75% market share (compared to 59.1%). iOS also reported an increase in sales (from 35.1 million to 37.4), but its overall market share dropped from 23 to 17%. Windows Phone deliveries during the year increased from 3 to 7 million, and its market share increased from 2 to 3.2%. Nokia is responsible for 79% of the devices in the system.

delivered more than a million BlackBerry smartphones running BlackBerry 10, but most of its sales are less expensive devices with version 7 system. Deliveries decreased total of nearly 10 million units to 6.3 million (less than Windows Phone), and market share from 6.4 to only 2.9%. Thorsten Heins, Ceo BlackBerry, expects success and sold tens of millions of units of the Q10 qwerty keyboard, but after a poor start Z10 is difficult to be optimistic. Invariably, also decreases the popularity of Symbian. Deliveries of equipment to this system decreased from 10.4 million to just 1.2 million, the share of the system’s market share fell from 6.8 to 1.6%. IDC gives him more than a year market presence.

It will be interesting in the second half of this year. IDC predicts that the increase of the systems, which are present in the report under the collective name “Linux” (the share at the moment are at 1%, delivered 2.1 million units). In June, will be Firefox OS, which is to conquer the “bottom” shelf and climb up. Samsung, which is due for Android climbed to the top, in August or September will launch Tizen device (interface will be similar to the TouchWiz). Any day should begin pre-sales of the first smartphone with Sailfish OS, which is slated for a wide audience in the second half of this year. To start preparing a Ubuntu Phone … Their success at the moment we can only speculate, but one thing is certain – the autumn will be colored.