Research firmThe NPD Groupsays that , thanks in part to Verizon iPhone gross revenue , Apple is now the third - turgid mobile phone brandin the U.S , in advance of HTC , Motorola , and RIM . NPD claims that the iPhone accounted for 14 pct of the mobile telephone gross revenue market in the first quarter of 2011 , behind Samsung ( 23 percentage ) and LG ( 18 percent ) .
Those number seem pretty reasonable . Apple report record iPhone sales during its most late salary call , saying it had sold 18.65 million iPhones in the quarter , which end March 26 . That marked an increment of 113 percentage from the 8.75 million sound Apple deal during the same period last year . Verizon accounted for 2.2 million of those iPhones , according tothat company ’s most late earnings call(which was probably made from a land line ) , but even with Verizon in the picture , AT&T did a healthy line of work . The GSM - ground carrieractivated 3.6 million iPhonesin the first quarter of 2011—33 percentage more than it had in the old poop . ( The remaining 12.85 million iPhones Apple sell were from external markets . )
NPD also cover that , for the first time , more than half of all new mobile phones buy by U.S. consumer were smartphones . That was proficient newsworthiness for Apple : The iPhone saw a 9 percent gain , up to 28 per centum of smartphone social unit gross revenue , grant to NPD ’s numbers . While you might think that a rising tide move up all boats , the firm also say that Android sales dipped more or less for the first fourth dimension since the 2nd quarter of 2009 — from 53 per centum in the late quarter to 50 per centum in the first fourth of 2011 .
However , it ’s deserving noting NPD gather its numbers via theMobile Phone Trackconsumer tracking overhaul , its own advance for search such data point through “ evidence research methodology and a domain - class market intelligence substructure , combine with strategic insights from our squad of wireless experts . ” Given that it conglomerate this data in a proprietary way , it ’s tough to say just how accurately it reflect the market . That sound out , it ’s not difficult to imagine that the plus of Verizon as an iPhone immune carrier , mate with steady increases on AT&T ’s side of the fence , would result in Apple selling more speech sound than ever before . And it seems as though that number is proceed to wax .
