{"id":3006,"date":"2008-09-24T12:20:06","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T19:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/?p=3006"},"modified":"2008-09-24T12:20:06","modified_gmt":"2008-09-24T19:20:06","slug":"smartphone-musical-chairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2008\/09\/24\/12\/20\/smartphone-musical-chairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Smartphone Musical Chairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gartner.com\/it\/page.jsp?id=754112\">Worldwide smartphone sales totalled 32.2 million units in the second quarter of 2008, a 15.7 per cent increase from the second quarter of 2007, according to Gartner, Inc. In addition, of all mobile device sales, smartphones&#8217; share remained stable at 11 per cent &#8230; Although Nokia held the No. 1 position with a 47.5 per cent market share in the second quarter of 2008, its year-over-year growth was about half of the market average &#8230; HTC gained the No. 3 position during the second quarter of 2008, moving up from the No. 7 ranking in the first quarter &#8230; In the second quarter of 2008, Apple&#8217;s share of global smartphone sales to end users decreased to 2.8 per cent from 5.3 per cent in the first quarter of 2008 &#8230; Symbian commanded 57 per cent of the global sales to end users in the second quarter of 2008 compared with 66 per cent in the same period last year &#8230; Sales of Microsoft Windows Mobile devices increased 20.6 per cent year over year, with Microsoft&#8217;s share remaining flat at 12 per cent in the second quarter of 2008.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Worldwide smartphone sales totalled 32.2 million units in the second quarter of 2008, a 15.7 per cent increase from the second quarter of 2007, according to Gartner, Inc. In addition, of all mobile device&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,933,934,311,183,932,312,931,935,936],"tags":[1380,1733,1734,1416,1399,1732,1417,1731,1735,1736],"class_list":["post-3006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-gartner","category-htc","category-iphone","category-microsoft","category-mobiles","category-nokia","category-smartphone","category-symbian","category-windows-mobile","tag-apple","tag-gartner","tag-htc","tag-iphone","tag-microsoft","tag-mobiles","tag-nokia","tag-smartphone","tag-symbian","tag-windows-mobile"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}