Touch-Screens Driving Smartphone Sales, Says Gartner

May 21st, 2009 - eWeek

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Smartphones grew to dominate a larger portion of the mobile device pie in the first quarter of 2009, driven largely by touch-screens, shows new data from Gartner. Nokia led in sales to users, followed by BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion, Apple with its iPhone and HTC.

Smartphones are on the rise, according to new data from Gartner, which revealed several firsts in the industry.

Worldwide mobile phone sales totaled 269.1 million units in the firstquarter of 2009 ? an 8.6 percent decrease from the first quarter of2008, Gartner reports ? while smartphone sales increased 12.7 percentfrom the same period last year, totaling more than 36.4 million unitsfor the quarter.

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