Technology & Business2007–2025

Smartphone OS Market Share

In 2007 Nokia's Symbian owned nearly two thirds of all smartphone sales, with BlackBerry and Windows Mobile fighting for the rest. Then the iPhone and Android arrived and rewrote the market in under four years. By 2013 it was a duopoly — and it never stopped being one.

Source: Gartner / StatCounter Gartner sell-through data through ~2016; StatCounter-informed estimates after. Methodologies differ; shares rounded to 0.1%. Updated 2026-07-03

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