Windows Phone, BlackBerry Smartphone Market Share Falls to 2.5%, 0.5% Respectively

From DailyTech: In late July, IDC provided us with figures detailing the top 5 smartphone vendors worldwide. Samsung found itself atop the list, having shipped 74.3 million smartphones during Q2 2014.

This week, IDC is providing figures outlining how smartphone operating systems are fairing in the global market. Not surprisingly, smartphones running Android and iOS are doing quite well in the market. Over 255 million smartphones were shipped in Q2 2014 running Android OS, equating to a whopping 84.7 percent of the market. The shipment figures represented a 33.3 percent increase over the same period in 2013.

Smartphones running iOS were much further behind with 35.2 million units shipped during the quarter. Still, iOS device shipments were up 12.7 percent year-over-year (YoY) which was enough to secure 11.7 percent of the global smartphone market.

Windows Phone and BlackBerry smartphones, however, didn’t fare nearly as well during Q2 2014. Windows Phone shipments stood at just 7.4 million for the quarter, which marked a 9.4 percent decrease compared to the same time last year. This translated into lost market share for Windows Phone as well, as its overall share of the market fell from 3.4 percent to 2.5 percent.

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