Mobile device shipments

There were 11.1 percent more mobile devices sold in 2011 compared to 2010.

• IDC (February 2012): 1,546 million handsets were sold in 2011, up 11.1 percent compared with 2010.
• Gartner (February 2012): 1,775 million handsets were sold in 2011, up 11.1 percent compared with 2010.
• Gartner (February 2012): predicts mobile device sales will grow by 7 percent in 2012, while smartphone growth is expected to slow to 39 percent.

• Strategy Analytics (February 2012): 1,551.4 million handsets were sold in 2011, up 14 percent compared with 2010.
• These figures include feature phones (68-69 percent of handsets sold in 2011) and smartphones (31-32 percent of handsets sold in 2011). Smartphone sales are broken out below.

Top ten mobile phone manufacturers, by 2011 global sales according to Gartner						Top five mobile phone manufacturers, by 2011 global sales according to IDC
Vendor	Shipments 2011 (millions)	Market share 2011	Shipments 2010 (millions)	Market share 2010		Vendor	Shipments 2011 (millions)	Market share 2011	Shipments 2010 (millions)	Market share 2010	Annual growth
Nokia	422.4	23.8	461.3	28.9		Nokia	417.1	27.0%	453.0	32.6%	-7.9%
Samsung	313.9	17.7%	281.0	17.6%		Samsung	329.4	21.3%	280.2	20.1%	17.6%
Apple	89.2	5.0%	46.5	2.9%		Apple	93.2	6.0%	47.5	3.4%	96.2%
LG Electronics	86.4	4.9%	114.1	7.1%		LG Electronics	88.1	5.7%	116.7	8.4%	-24.5%
ZTE	56.9	3.2%	29.6	1.9%		ZTE	66.1	4.3%	50.5	3.6%	30.9%
RIM	51.5	2.9%	49.6	3.1%		Others	552.1	35.7%	443.6	31.9%	24.5%
HTC	43.2	2.4%	24.6	1.5%
Huawei	40.6	2.3%	23.8	1.5%
Motorola	40.2	2.3%	38.5	2.4%
Sony Ericsson	32.5	1.8%	41.8	2.6%
Others	597.3	33.7%	485.4	30.4%
Total	1,775	100%	1,597	100%		Total	1,546	100%	1,391.5	100%	11.1%
Source: Gartner (Feb 2012)						Sourc